Superblock may refer to:
Urban planning
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Superblock (urban planning)
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 plan, grid system, the block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets. City blo ...
, a type of city block that is much larger than a traditional city block
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Superblock (University of Minnesota), a section of the Health area in the East Bank of the Minneapolis campus, US
** Superblock, a former large area formed after urban renewal in the
cityscape of Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington, West Virginia, Huntington, West Virginia's central business district is located to the south of the Ohio River, east of the Robert C. Byrd Bridge, and west of Hal Greer Boulevard. Broad avenues and streets dominate the streetscape, c ...
, US
* The Barcelona superblocks, a way to encourage walking, wheeling and bus use over private cars for short journeys. See Barcelona's superilles in
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 ...
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Computing
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Superblock (file system), a segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device, as in the Unix File System
* Superblock, in the
density matrix renormalization group
The density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) is a numerical variational technique devised to obtain the low-energy physics of quantum many-body systems with high accuracy. As a variational method, DMRG is an efficient algorithm that attempts ...
numerical technique
* Superblock algorithm, in the
pairwise summation
In numerical analysis, pairwise summation, also called cascade summation, is a technique to sum a sequence of finite-arithmetic precision, precision floating-point numbers that substantially reduces the accumulated round-off error compared to naive ...
numerical analysis
* Superblock, of pixels, for example in the
AV1
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium founded in 2015 tha ...
video coding format, or VP9
* Superblocks, of memory in the Hoard
C dynamic memory allocation
C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions in the C standard library, namely , , , and .
The C++ programming language inclu ...
See also
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Superblock scheduling, a type of instruction scheduling
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