Block
Block may refer to:
Land subdivisions
- Block (rural Australia), a small agricultural landholding
- Block (district subdivision), administrative region in some South Asian countries
- City block, the smallest area that is surrounded by streets
- License block, a geographically defined area for the purpose of the extraction of natural resources
Broadcasting
- Block programming, the result of a programming strategy in broadcasting
- W242BX, a radio station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States known as 96.3 the Block
- WQNC, a radio station licensed to Harrisburg, North Carolina, United States known as 92.7 the Block
Mathematics
- Aschbacher block of a finite group
- Block (permutation group theory)
- Block design, a kind of set system in combinatorial mathematics
- Block matrix
- Block of a ring, a centrally primitive idempotent or the ideal it generates
- Block in modular representation theory
Medicine
Music
- Block (musician), also known as Jamie Block, a New York City–based anti-folk musician
- Block Entertainment, a record label
- Blocks Recording Club, a record label
- Wood block, a small piece of slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
Objects
- A large concrete masonry unit, or cement block
- Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
- The presence of a block artifact in compressed images
- Cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
- Block heater, a means of pre-heating an engine to facilitate starting
- 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
- 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
- Wood block, a small piece of slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
- Tower block, a high rise multi-unit building
Places
- Block, Tennessee, an unincorporated community and coal town in Campbell County, Tennessee, USA
- Block Island, Rhode Island
Other sciences
- Fault block, a geologic zone or geologic province
- Block (meteorology), large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field
- Block (periodic table)
Sports
- Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
- Starting blocks, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run
- Blocking (martial arts)
Technology
- Block (data storage), the practice of storing electronic data in equally sized units
- Block (Internet), technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources
- Block (programming), a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit
- Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
- Block Elements, a Unicode block of block-shaped characters
- Block-level element in the HTML markup language
- Block Number (aircraft), a method of differentiating between groups of aircraft of the same type that have minor modifications
- Blocks (C language extension), an extension to the C programming language designed to support parallel programming
- Unicode block, a named range of codepoints in Unicode
Transport
- A way of controlling train movement in railway signalling blocks
People with the surname
- Adriaen Block (1567–1627), Dutch trader and navigator
- Francesca Lia Block (born 1962), American writer
- Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock, American political cartoonist
- Ken Block (born 1967), American professional rally driver
- Lawrence Block (born 1938), American crime writer
- Malú Block (1904–1989), born María Luisa Cabrera, Mexican artist
- Mark Block, American political strategist
- Ned Block (born 1942), American philosopher
- Paul Block (newspaper publisher) (1877 - 1941), American newspaper publisher
- Stephanie J. Block (born 1972), American actress and singer
- Walter Block (born 1941), American economist, author
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Block
- All pages with titles containing Block
- Blockade (disambiguation)
- Blockbuster (disambiguation)
- Blocking (disambiguation)
- Non-blocking (disambiguation)
- Bloc (disambiguation)
- Unblock (disambiguation)
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