That hint should highlight a sector as well as a row and it tells you that all cells in the highlighted sector that can have the selected number is on the highlighted row. Consequently, all possibilites of that number on the highlighted row (outside the highlighted sector) can be removed.
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That hint should highlight a sector as well as a row and it tells you that all cells in the highlighted sector that can have the selected number is on the highlighted row. Consequently, all possibilites of that number on the highlighted row (outside the highlighted sector) can be removed.
Most guides on the Internet refer to this as "intersection removal" or "pointing pairs/triples", for example: http://www.scanraid.com/Intersection_Removal