Block
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Block may refer to:
- Block (street), an area surrounded but not divided by streets
- Block (toy), one of a set of wooden or plastic pieces of various shapes
- Block (sailing), a pulley or a number of pulleys enclosed in sheaves
- Block (subnational entity)
- Block (group theory)
- Block (graph theory)
- Block (meteorology)
- Block (programming), a segment of a program
- Block (data storage)
- Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
- Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
- Census block, the smallest geographical unit in the U.S. Census Bureau
- Engine block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
- Postage stamp block, an attached group of postage stamps
Block may also be used for:
- A block in railway signalling used to control the train movement
- A form of access control
- A block in blocking (American football), when a player obstructs another player's path
- A block in martial arts blocking techniques
[edit] People with the surname Block
[edit] See also
- Block chord
- Block cipher
- Block matrix
- Block size (cryptography)
- Bloch (disambiguation)
- Blok (disambiguation)
- Bloc
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