Block or blocked may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
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
- 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
Music
- Block Entertainment, a record label
- Blocks Recording Club, a record label
- 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
- 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
Video game
- Blocked (video game), a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Building and construction
- Concrete block, cinder block or cement block, a concrete masonry unit for building
- Compressed earth block, a building block or unit for construction
- Tower block, a high-rise building
Land subdivisions
- Block (district subdivision), administrative region in some South Asian countries
- Block (rural Australia), a small agricultural landholding
- City block, the smallest area that is surrounded by streets
Places
United States
- Block, Illinois, an unincorporated community
- Block, Kansas, an unincorporated community
- Block, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
- Block Island, an island in the state of Rhode Island
Science and technology
- Block (periodic table), a set of adjacent groups in the periodic table
- Block (meteorology), large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field
- Fault block, a geologic zone or geologic province
- Block, Inc., an American technology company formerly known as Square
Computing
- Blockchain, a segment of an open list of data records
- 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
- Blocking access to certain websites is one form of internet censorship
- Block or subnet of the Internet, a subset of the internet in a set of contiguous IP addresses
- Block (programming), a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit
- Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
- Block artifact, a type of distortion in a compressed image
- 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, a named range of codepoints in Unicode
- Block Elements, a Unicode block of block-shaped characters
Engineering
- Engine block and cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
- Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
Medicine
- Nerve block, or regional nerve blockade, any deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief
- Third-degree atrioventricular block (AV block), a medical condition
Mathematics
- Block (permutation group theory)
- Block, in modular representation theory
- Block, in graph theory, is a biconnected component, a maximal biconnected subgraph of a graph
- Aschbacher block of a finite group
- 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
Sports
- Block, a defensive shot in pickleball
- Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
- Block (cricket), when a batsman deflects the ball to avoid getting out
- Blocking (American football)
- Blocking (martial arts)
- Starting blocks, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run
- The Block (basketball), a defensive play in game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals
Transportation
- Block number, a system to differentiate between groups of aircraft of the same type with minor variants
- Signalling block system, a way of controlling train movement
People
Main article: Block (surname)- Block (musician) (Jamie Block), an anti-folk musician based in New York, US
Other uses
- Block letters (also known as printscript, manuscript, print writing, or ball and stick in academics), a sans-serif (or "Gothic") style of writing
- Block party (also known as street party), a community social event
- Block scheduling, a type of academic scheduling
- 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
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Block
- All pages with titles containing Block
- All pages with titles beginning with Blocked
- Block House (disambiguation)
- Block Party (disambiguation)
- The Block (disambiguation)
- Blockbuster (disambiguation)
- Blockhead (disambiguation)
- Bloc (disambiguation)
- Blockade (disambiguation)
- Blockbuster (disambiguation)
- Blocker (disambiguation)
- Blocking (disambiguation)
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