Block

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Block may refer to:

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Land subdivisions

• Block (rural Australia), a small agricultural landholding
• Block (district subdivision), administrative region in some South Asian countries
• City block, the smallest area that is surrounded by streets
• License block, a geographically defined area for the purpose of the extraction of natural resources

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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
• WQNC, a radio station licensed to Harrisburg, North Carolina, United States, branded as 92.7 The Block

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Mathematics

• Aschbacher block of a finite group
• Block (permutation group theory)
• 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
• Block in modular representation theory

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Medicine

• Nerve block

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Music

• Block (musician), also known as Jamie Block, an anti-folk musician based in the U.S. city of New York
• Block Entertainment, a record label
• Blocks Recording Club, a record label
• Wood block, a small piece of slit drum made from one piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument

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Physical objects

• A large concrete masonry unit, or cement block, for building
• Compressed earth block, also for building
• Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
• Cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
• Block heater, a device to preheat an engine to facilitate starting
• 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
• 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
• Wood block, a small piece of slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
• Tower block, a high-rise multiunit building

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Places in the United States

• Block, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in the state of Tennessee
• Block Island, an island in the state of Rhode Island

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Other sciences

• Fault block, a geologic zone or geologic province
• Block (meteorology), large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field
• Block (scheduling), a type of academic scheduling
• Block (periodic table), a set of adjacent groups in the periodic table

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Sports

• Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
• The Block (basketball), a defensive play in game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals
• Starting blocks, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run
• Blocking (martial arts)

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Computing

• Block artifact, a type of distortion in a compressed image
• 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
• Block (programming), a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit
• Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
• 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 Elements, a Unicode block of block-shaped characters
• Unicode block, a named range of codepoints in Unicode

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Transport

• Block number, a system to differentiate between groups of aircraft of the same type with minor variants
• A way of controlling train movement in railway signalling blocks

People with the surname

• Adriaen Block (1567-1627), Dutch trader and navigator
• Francesca Lia Block (born 1962), American writer
• Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock, American political cartoonist
• Jeanne Block (1923-1981), American psychologist
• Ken Block (born 1967), American professional rally driver
• Lawrence Block (born 1938), American crime writer
• Malú Block (1904-1989), born María Luisa Cabrera, Mexican artist
• Mark Block, American political strategist
• Ned Block (born 1942), American philosopher
• Nili Block (born 1995), Israeli kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter
• Paul Block (newspaper publisher) (1877-1941), American newspaper publisher
• Stephanie J. Block (born 1972), American actress and singer
• Walter Block (born 1941), American economist, author

See also

• All pages beginning with "Block"
• All pages with a title containing Block
• Block letters
• Blockade (disambiguation)
• Blockbuster (disambiguation)
• Blocking (disambiguation)
• Non-blocking (disambiguation)
• Bloc (disambiguation)

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