Block Explained

Block or blocked may refer to:

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
• WFNZ-FM, a radio station licensed to Harrisburg, North Carolina, United States, branded as 92.7 The Block
• "Blocked", an episode of the television series The Flash

Music

• Block Entertainment, a record label
• Blocks Recording Club, a record label
• Woodblock (instrument), a small piece of slit drum made from one piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
• "Blocks", by C418 from Minecraft – Volume Beta, 2013

Toys

• 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

Video game

• Blocked (video game), a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Building and construction

• Concrete block, cinder block or cement block, a concrete masonry unit for building
• Compressed earth block, a building block or unit for construction
• Tower block, a high-rise building

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

Places

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

• Block (periodic table), a set of adjacent groups in the periodic table
• Block (meteorology), large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field
• Fault block, a geologic zone or geologic province
• Block, Inc., an American technology company formerly known as Square

Computing

• Blockchain, a segment of an open list of data records
• 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
  • • Blocking access to certain websites is one form of internet censorship Block or subnet of the Internet, a subset of the internet in a set of contiguous IP addresses
• Block (programming), a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit
• Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
• Block artifact, a type of distortion in a compressed image
• 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, a named range of codepoints in Unicode
  • Block Elements, a Unicode block of block-shaped characters

Engineering

• Engine block and cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
• Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats

Medicine

• Nerve block, or regional nerve blockade, any deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief
• Third-degree atrioventricular block (AV block), a medical condition

Mathematics

• Block (permutation group theory)
• Block, in modular representation theory
• Block, in graph theory, is a biconnected component, a maximal biconnected subgraph of a graph
• 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

Sports

• Block, a defensive shot in pickleball
• Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
• Block (cricket), when a batsman deflects the ball to avoid getting out
• Blocking (American football)
• 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

Transportation

• Block number, a system to differentiate between groups of aircraft of the same type with minor variants
• Signalling block system, a way of controlling train movement

People

See main article: Block (surname).

• Block (musician) (Jamie Block), an anti-folk musician based in New York, US

Other uses

• Block letters (also known as printscript, manuscript, print writing, or ball and stick in academics), a sans-serif (or "Gothic") style of writing
• Block party (also known as street party), a community social event
• Block scheduling, a type of academic scheduling
• 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

See also

• • • • Block House (disambiguation)
• Block Party (disambiguation)
• The Block (disambiguation)
• Blockbuster (disambiguation)
• Blockhead (disambiguation)
• Bloc (disambiguation)
• Blockade (disambiguation)
• Blockbuster (disambiguation)
• Blocker (disambiguation)
• Blocking (disambiguation)