Block or blocked may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Broadcasting
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Block programming
Block programming (also known as a strand in British broadcasting) is the arrangement of programs on radio or television so that those of a particular genre, theme, or target audience are united.
Overview
Block programming involves scheduling a ...
, the result of a programming strategy in broadcasting
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W242BX, a radio station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States known as ''96.3 the Block ''
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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
The Flash is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1 (cover date, cover-dated Jan ...
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Music
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Block Entertainment, a record label
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Blocks Recording Club, a record label
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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
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Toy block, one of a set of wooden or plastic pieces, of various shapes
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Unit block, a type of standardized wooden toy block for children
Video games
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Blocked (video game), a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Building and construction
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Concrete block, cinder block or cement block, a concrete masonry unit for building
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Compressed earth block, a building block or unit for construction
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Glass brick
Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. The appearance of glass blocks can vary in color, size, texture and form. Glass bricks provide visual obscuration while admitting light. The modern glass block ...
, also known as glass block
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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
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Block (district subdivision)
A block is an administrative division of some South Asian countries.
Bhutan
In Bhutan, a block is called a gewog. It is essentially for oil a group of villages. Gewogs are official administrative units of Bhutan. The country is composed of ...
, administrative region in some South Asian countries
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Block (rural Australia), a small agricultural landholding
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City block
A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design.
In a city with a grid system, the block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets. City blocks are th ...
, the smallest area that is surrounded by streets
Places
United States
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Block, Illinois
Block is an unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Block is located along the Union Pacific railroad line northeast of Villa Grove. Block (also known locally as Block Station) was created in 1903-1904 when the Ch ...
, an unincorporated community
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Block, Kansas
Block is an unincorporated community in Miami County, Kansas
Miami County is a County (United States), county located in East-Central Kansas, east-central Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Its county se ...
, an unincorporated community
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Block, Tennessee
Block is an unincorporated community and coal town in Campbell County, Tennessee
Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United ...
, an unincorporated community
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Block Island
Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago in New England, located approximately south of mainland Rhode Island and east of Long Island's Montauk Point. The island is coterminous with the town of New Shoreham, Rhode Isl ...
, an island in the state of Rhode Island
Science and technology
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Block (periodic table)
A block of the periodic table is a set of elements unified by the atomic orbitals their valence electrons or vacancies lie in. The term seems to have been first used by Charles Janet. Each block is named after its characteristic orbital: s-bl ...
, a set of adjacent groups in the periodic table
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Block (meteorology)
Blocks in meteorology are large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field that are nearly stationary, effectively "blocking" or redirecting migratory cyclones. They are also known as blocking highs or blocking anticyclones.Glossary of Met ...
, large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field
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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
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Block, Inc.
Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.) is an American technology company and a financial services provider for consumers and merchants. Founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey, it is the U.S. market leader in Point of sale, point-of-sale systems. As of 20 ...
, an American technology company formerly known as Square
Computing
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Blockchain
The blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of Record (computer science), records (''blocks'') that are securely linked together via Cryptographic hash function, cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of th ...
, a segment of an open list of data records
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Block (data storage)
In computing (specifically data transmission and data storage), a block, sometimes called a physical record, is a sequence of bytes or bits, usually containing some whole number of records, having a fixed length; a ''block size''. Data thus ...
, the practice of storing electronic data in equally sized units
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Block (Internet), technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources
** Blocking access to certain websites is one form of
internet censorship
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as ''Wikipedia.org'', for example) but exceptionally may ...
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subnet
A subnet, or subnetwork, is a logical subdivision of an IP network. Updated by RFC 6918. The practice of dividing a network into two or more networks is called subnetting.
Computers that belong to the same subnet are addressed with an identica ...
of the Internet, a subset of the internet in a set of contiguous IP addresses
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Block (programming)
In computer programming, a block or code block or block of code is a lexical structure of source code which is grouped together. Blocks consist of one or more declarations and statements. A programming language that permits the creation of bl ...
, a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit
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Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
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Block artifact, a type of distortion in a compressed image
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Block-level element, in the HTML markup language
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Blocks (C language extension), an extension to the C programming language designed to support parallel programming
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Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
, a named range of codepoints in Unicode
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Block Elements
Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading. Used along with block elements are box-drawing characters, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of t ...
, a Unicode block of block-shaped characters
Engineering
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Engine block
In an internal combustion engine, the engine block is the structure that contains the cylinders and other components. The engine block in an early automotive engine consisted of just the cylinder block, to which a separate crankcase was attach ...
and cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
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Block (sailing)
In sailing, a block is a single or multiple pulley. One or a number of '' sheaves'' are enclosed in an assembly between ''cheeks'' or ''chocks''. In use, a block is fixed to the end of a line, to a spar, or to a surface. A line (rope) is ''r ...
, a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
Medicine
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Nerve block
Nerve block or regional nerve blockade is any deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief. #Local anesthetic nerve block, Local anesthetic nerve block (sometimes referred to as simply "nerve b ...
, or regional nerve blockade, any deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief
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Third-degree atrioventricular block (AV block), a medical condition
Mathematics
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Block (permutation group theory)
* Block, in
modular representation theory
Modular representation theory is a branch of mathematics, and is the part of representation theory that studies linear representations of finite groups over a field ''K'' of positive characteristic ''p'', necessarily a prime number. As well as h ...
* Block, in graph theory, is a
biconnected component
In graph theory, a biconnected component or block (sometimes known as a 2-connected component) is a maximal biconnected subgraph. Any connected graph decomposes into a tree of biconnected components called the block-cut tree of the graph. Th ...
, a maximal biconnected subgraph of a graph
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Aschbacher block of a finite group
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Block design
In combinatorial mathematics, a block design is an incidence structure consisting of a set together with a family of subsets known as ''blocks'', chosen such that number of occurrences of each element satisfies certain conditions making the co ...
, a kind of set system in combinatorial mathematics
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Block matrix
In mathematics, a block matrix or a partitioned matrix is a matrix that is interpreted as having been broken into sections called blocks or submatrices.
Intuitively, a matrix interpreted as a block matrix can be visualized as the original matrix w ...
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Block of a ring, a centrally primitive idempotent or the ideal it generates
Sports
* Block, a defensive shot in
pickleball
Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two or four players use a smooth-faced paddle to hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball over a net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits a rule infraction. Pickleball is played i ...
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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
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Block (cricket), when a batsman deflects the ball to avoid getting out
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Blocking (American football)
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Blocking (martial arts)
In martial arts, blocking is the act of stopping or deflecting an opponent's attack for the purpose of preventing injurious contact with the body. A block usually consists of placing a limb across the line of the attack.
Examples in specific ar ...
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Starting blocks
Starting blocks are a device used in the sport of track and field by Sprint (running), sprint athletes to brace their feet against at the start of a race so they do not slip as they stride forward at the sound of the starter's pistol. The blocks ...
, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run
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The Block (basketball), a defensive play in game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals
Transportation
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Block number, a system to differentiate between groups of aircraft of the same type with minor variants
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Signalling block system, a way of controlling train movement
People
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Block (musician) (Jamie Block), an anti-folk musician based in New York, US
Other uses
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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
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Block party
A block party or street party is a party in which many members of a single community congregate, either to observe an event of some importance or simply for mutual solidarity and enjoyment. The name comes from the form of the party, which ofte ...
(also known as street party), a community social event
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Block scheduling
Block scheduling or blocking is a type of academic scheduling used in some schools in the American K-12, K-12 system, in which Student, students have fewer but longer classes per day than in a traditional academic schedule. It is more common in m ...
, a type of academic scheduling
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Hat block
A hat block, also known as a hat form or bashing block, is a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman known as a block shaper. It is used by hat makers and Hatmaking, milliners to produce a hat.
Today there are only a handful of ...
, or block shaper, a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman
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Postage stamp block, an attached group of postage stamps
See also
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Block House (disambiguation)
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Block Party (disambiguation)
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The Block (disambiguation)
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Blockbuster (disambiguation)
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Blockhead (disambiguation)
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Bloc (disambiguation)
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Blockade (disambiguation)
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Blockbuster (disambiguation)
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Blocker (disambiguation)
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Blocking (disambiguation)
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