Block
Block may refer to:
Land subdivisions
- Block (district subdivision), administrative region in some South Asian countries
- Block (rural Australia), a small agricultural landholding
- 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
Physical objects
- Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
- Block, a large concrete masonry unit, or cement block, for building
- Block heater, a device to preheat an engine to facilitate starting
- Compressed earth block, also for building
- Cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
- Hat block, or block shaper, a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman
- 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 multiunit building
Arts, entertainment, and media
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, branded as 92.7 The Block
Music
- Block Entertainment, a record label
- Blocks Recording Club, a record label
- Wood block, a small piece of slit drum made from one piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
Mathematics
- Block (permutation group theory)
- Block (graph theory), or biconnected component, a maximal biconnected subgraph of a graph
- Block, in modular representation theory
- Aschbacher block of a finite group
- 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
People with the name
People with the pseudonym
- Block (musician), also known as Jamie Block, an anti-folk musician based in the U.S. city of New York
People with the surname
- Adriaen Block (1567–1627), Dutch trader and navigator
- Austin Block (born 1989), American ice hockey player
- Francesca Lia Block (born 1962), American writer
- Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock, American political cartoonist
- Jeanne Block (1923–1981), American psychologist
- Julius H. Block (1860-1915), American politician
- Ken Block (born 1967), American professional rally driver
- Larry Bock (1959–2016), American entrepreneur
- 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
- Nili Block (born 1995), Israeli kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter
- 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
Places in the United States
- Block, Illinois, an unincorporated community
- Block, Kansas, an unincorporated community
- Block, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
- Block Island, an island in the state of Rhode Island
Science and technology
Computing
- Block (blockchain), that is, a segment of an open list of data records
- Block artifact, a type of distortion in a compressed image
- 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-level element in the HTML markup language
- Blocks (C language extension), an extension to the C programming language designed to support parallel programming
Unicode
- Block Elements, a Unicode block of block-shaped characters
- Unicode block, a named range of codepoints in Unicode
Other science and technology
- Block (meteorology), large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field
- Block (periodic table), a set of adjacent groups in the periodic table
- Block (scheduling), a type of academic scheduling
- Fault block, a geologic zone or geologic province
- Nerve block
Sports
- Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
- Blocking (martial arts)
- Starting blocks, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run
- The Block (basketball), a defensive play in game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals
Transport
- Block number, a system to differentiate between groups of aircraft of the same type with minor variants
- Railway signalling blocks, a way of controlling train movement
- Signalling block system, a way of controlling train movement
Other uses
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Block
- All pages with titles containing Block
- Bloc (disambiguation)
- Blockade (disambiguation)
- Blockbuster (disambiguation)
- Blocking (disambiguation)
- Non-blocking (disambiguation)
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