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 games

* 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 * Glass brick, also known as glass block *

Tower block A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction. ...

, 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 Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by Tectonics, tectonic and localized stresses in Crust (geology), Earth's crust. Large areas of bedrock are broken up into blocks by Fault (geology) ...

, 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) In basketball, a block or blocked shot occurs when a defensive player legally deflects a field goal (basketball), field goal attempt from an offensive player to prevent a score. The defender is not allowed to make contact with the offensive playe ...

, 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

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

Other uses

Block letters Block letters (known as printscript, manuscript, print writing, printing or ball and stick in academics) are a sans-serif (or "gothic") style of writing Latin script in which the letters are individual glyphs, with no joining. Elementary educat ...

(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