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Block may refer to:
[edit] Administrative subdivisions
- A city block, the smallest area that is surrounded by streets
- Block (country subdivision), term used in many South Asian countries
[edit] Objects
- A large concrete masonry unit
- A solid piece of a hard substance, such as wood, upon which persons are beheaded, e.g.: The charges that led Sir Walter Raleigh to the block in 1618.
- Tower block, a high rise multi-unit building
- Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
- Cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
- Toy block, one of a set of wooden or plastic pieces of various shapes
- Unit block a type of standardized wooden toy block for children
- Freewheel, a set of rear sprockets that attaches to a hub on the rear wheel
- Wood block a small piece of slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
- Hat block a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman known as a block shaper
- Postage stamp block, an attached group of postage stamps
[edit] Science
- Block (periodic table)
- Block (extraction of petroleum), a sub-division of an underground reservoir
- Block (meteorology), large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field
- Block (geology), is a geologic zone or geologic province
[edit] Sports
- Blocking (American football), when a player obstructs another player's path
- Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
- Blocking (martial arts), a defensive technique in the martial arts
- Starting blocks, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run
[edit] Transport
- A way of controlling train movement in railway signalling
[edit] Technology
- Block (data storage), the practice of storing electronic data in equally-sized units
- Block-level element in the HTML markup language
- Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
- Block (programming), a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit
- Block (Internet), technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources
- Boom Blox, a 2008 video game for the Wii console from EA, previously known as Blocks
- Blocks (C language extension), an extension to the C programming language designed to support parallel programming
- Non-blocking (disambiguation), for computers running multiple programs at once, it is important for no single task waiting for completion of an operation to indefinitely block the processing of any other task
- Unicode block, a named range of codepoints in Unicode
- Block elements, a class of Box-drawing characters
- Block Number (aircraft), a method of differentiating between groups of aircraft of the same type that have minor modifications
[edit] Mathematics
- Aschbacher block of a finite group
- Block design, a kind of set system in combinatorial mathematics
- Block (permutation group theory)
- Block of a ring, a centrally primitive idempotent or the ideal it generates
- Block in modular representation theory
- In graph theory, a maximally 2-connected subgraph or a bridge with its endvertices
- Blocks are the elements of a block matrix
[edit] Music
- Block Entertainment, a record label
- Blocks Recording Club, a record label
- Block musical form
- Wood block, a small piece of slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
[edit] Film
- Blocked, a 2006 horror film directed by James E. Roberts
[edit] Broadcasting
- Program block, the result of a programming strategy in broadcasting
[edit] People
- Francesca Lia Block (born 1962), American writer
- Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock, American political cartoonist
- Lawrence Block (born 1938), American crime writer
- Malú Block (1904–1989), born María Luisa Cabrera, Mexican artist
- Mark Block, American political strategist
- Walter Block (born 1941), American economist, author
[edit] See also
- All pages beginning with "Block"
- All pages with titles containing "Block"
- Blocking (disambiguation)
- Blockade (disambiguation)
- Blockbuster (disambiguation)
- Bloc (disambiguation)
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