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Block may refer to:

Contents 1 Objects 2 Unit of land 3 Science 4 Sports 5 Transport 6 Technology 7 Mathematics 8 Music 9 Broadcasting 10 See also 11 People

[edit] Objects

• A large concrete masonry unit
• Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
• Cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
• 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
• Freewheel, a set of rear sprockets that attaches to a hub on the rear wheel
• Wood block a small piece of slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
• Hat block a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman known as a block shaper
• Postage stamp block, an attached group of postage stamps

[edit] Unit of land

• Block (administrative division), a unit of government in some South Asian countries
• Census block, the smallest geographical unit in the U.S. Census Bureau
• City block, an area surrounded but not divided by streets

[edit] Science

• Block (extraction of petroleum), a sub-division of an underground reservoir
• Block (meteorology), large-scale near-stationary patterns in the atmospheric pressure field

[edit] Sports

• Blocking (American football), when a player obstructs another player's path
• Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
• Blocking (martial arts), a defensive technique in the martial arts

[edit] Transport

• A way of controlling train movement in railway signalling

[edit] Technology

• Block (data storage), the practice of storing electronic data in equally-sized units
• Block-level element in the HTML markup language
• Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
• block (programming), a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit
• Block (internet), technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources
• Boom Blox, a video game for the Wii console from EA, previously known as Blocks
• Blocks (C language extension), an extension to the C programming language designed to support parallel programming
• Non-blocking, for computers running multiple programs at once, it is important for no single task waiting for completion of an operation to indefinitely block the processing of any other task.

[edit] Mathematics

• Block design, a kind of set system in combinatorial mathematics
• Block (group theory)
• In graph theory, a maximally 2-connected subgraph or a bridge with its endvertices
• Blocks are the elements of a block matrix

[edit] Music

• Block Entertainment, a record label
• Blocks Recording Club, a record label
• Block form musical form

[edit] Broadcasting

• Program block, the result of a programming strategy in broadcasting

[edit] See also

• Blocking
• Bloc

[edit] People

• Malú Block, born María Luisa Cabrera (1904–1989), Mexican artist
• Laura Block, (1989-), British Chemist
• Lawrence Block, (1938-), American crime writer

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