Block or blocked may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Broadcasting

Block programming Block programming is the broadcast programming, arrangement of programs on radio or television so that those of a particular genre, theme, or target audience are united. Overview Block programming involves scheduling a series of related shows whi ...

, the result of a programming strategy in broadcasting *

W242BX WFBC-FM (93.7 MHz) is a Top 40 (CHR) station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina and serving the Upstate and Western North Carolina regions, including Greenville, Spartanburg, and Asheville, North Carolina. The Audacy, Inc. outlet is lic ...

, 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 (''The Flash''), an episode of the television series ''The Flash''

Music

Block Entertainment Block Entertainment or Block Ent. Worldwide is a record label created by Russell "Block" Spencer and Andrew "Gotti" Couser. The label is known for creating southern group Boyz n da Hood (rap group), Boyz N Da Hood and releasing artist Yung Joc. ...

, 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 unit block is a type of standardized wooden toy block for children. Known also as standard unit blocks or kindergarten blocks, these building blocks are common in preschools and some kindergarten classrooms in the United States. Sizes A unit bl ...

, a type of standardized wooden toy block for children

Video game

Blocked (video game) ''Blocked'' is a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch The iPod Touch (stylized as iPod touch) is a discontinued line of iOS-based mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a touchscreen-controlled user interface. As wit ...

, a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Building and construction

Breeze block A concrete masonry unit (CMU) is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction. CMUs are some of the most versatile building products available because of the wide variety of appearances that can be achieved using them. Tho ...

, cinder block or cement block, a concrete masonry unit for building * Compressed earth block, a building block or unit for construction *

Tower block A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently ...

, a high-rise building

Land subdivisions

Block (district subdivision) A block is an administrative division of some South Asian countries. Bhutan In Bhutan, a block is called a gewog. It is essentially for oil a group of villages. Gewogs are official administrative units of Bhutan. The country is composed of ...

, administrative region in some South Asian countries *

Block (rural Australia) Block is an Australian term for a small agricultural landholding. Block settlement has been used by Governments to encourage decentralization and during financial depressions to give families of unemployed workers an opportunity (frequently illusor ...

, a small agricultural landholding *

City block A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. A city block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets, not counting any type of thoroughfare within t ...

, the smallest area that is surrounded by streets

Places

Block, Illinois Block is an unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Block is located along the Union Pacific railroad line northeast of Villa Grove, Illinois, Villa Grove. Block (also known locally as Blo ...

, an unincorporated community, US * Block, Kansas, an unincorporated community, US * Block, Tennessee, an unincorporated community, US *

Block Island Block Island is an island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island located in Block Island Sound approximately south of the mainland and east of Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, named after Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. It is part of Washingt ...

, an island in the state of Rhode Island, US

Science and technology

Block (periodic table) A block of the periodic table is a set of elements unified by the atomic orbitals their valence electrons or vacancies lie in. The term appears to have been first used by Charles Janet. Each block is named after its characteristic orbital: s-bloc ...

, a set of adjacent groups in the periodic table *

Block (meteorology) Blocks in meteorology are large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field that are nearly stationary, effectively "blocking" or redirecting migratory cyclones. They are also known as blocking highs or blocking anticyclones.Glossary of Met ...

, large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field *

Fault block Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust. Large areas of bedrock are broken up into blocks by faults. Blocks are characterized by rela ...

, a geologic zone or geologic province * Block, Inc., an American technology company formerly known as Square

Computing

Block (blockchain) A blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that consists of growing lists of records, called ''blocks'', that are securely linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a ...

, a segment of an open list of data records *

Block (data storage) In computing (specifically data transmission and data storage), a block, sometimes called a physical record, is a sequence of bytes or bits, usually containing some whole number of records, having a maximum length; a ''block size''. Data thus ...

, the practice of storing electronic data in equally sized units *

Block (Internet) On the Internet, a block or ban is a technical measure intended to restrict access to information or resources. Blocking and its inverse, unblocking, may be implemented by the owners of computers using software. Some countries, notably China a ...

, technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources ** Blocking access to certain websites is one form of internet censorship * Block (programming), a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit *

Block (telecommunications) In telecommunications a block is one of: * A group of bits or digits that is transmitted as a unit and that may be encoded for error-control purposes. * A string of records, words, or characters, that for technical or logical purposes are treated ...

, a unit of data transmission *

Block artifact 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 ...

, a type of distortion in a compressed image *

Block-level element An HTML element is a type of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) document component, one of several types of HTML nodes (there are also text nodes, comment nodes and others). The first used version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 ...

, in the HTML markup language *

Blocks (C language extension) Blocks are a non-standard extension added by Apple Inc. to Clang's implementations of the C, C++, and Objective-C programming languages that uses a lambda expression-like syntax to create closures within these languages. Blocks are supported for ...

, an extension to the C programming language designed to support parallel programming *

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...

, 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) In sailing, a block is a single or multiple pulley. One or a number of ''sheaves'' are enclosed in an assembly between ''cheeks'' or ''chocks''. In use, a block is fixed to the end of a line, to a spar (sailing), spar, or to a surface. A line ( ...

, 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 ** Local anesthetic nerve block (sometimes referred to as simply "nerve block"), a short-term block ** Nerve block, the deliberate temporary degeneration of nerve fibers to produce a block that may persist for weeks, months, or indefinitely ** Neurectomy, the cutting through or removal of a nerve or a section of a nerve, which usually produces a permanent block *

Third-degree atrioventricular block Third-degree atrioventricular block (AV block) is a medical condition in which the electrical impulse generated in the sinoatrial node (SA node) in the atrium of the heart can not propagate to the ventricles. Because the impulse is blocked, an a ...

(AV block), a medical condition

Mathematics

* Block (permutation group theory) * Block, in

modular representation theory Modular representation theory is a branch of mathematics, and is the part of representation theory that studies linear representations of finite groups over a field ''K'' of positive characteristic ''p'', necessarily a prime number. As well as ...

* Block, in graph theory, is a biconnected component, a maximal biconnected subgraph of a graph * Aschbacher block of a finite group *

Block design In combinatorial mathematics, a block design is an incidence structure consisting of a set together with a family of subsets known as ''blocks'', chosen such that frequency of the elements satisfies certain conditions making the collection of bl ...

, a kind of set system in combinatorial mathematics *

Block matrix In mathematics, a block matrix or a partitioned matrix is a matrix that is '' interpreted'' as having been broken into sections called blocks or submatrices. Intuitively, a matrix interpreted as a block matrix can be visualized as the original mat ...

Block of a ring In ring theory, a Peirce decomposition is a decomposition of an algebra as a sum of eigenspaces of commuting idempotent element (ring theory), idempotent elements. The Peirce decomposition for associative algebras was introduced by . A similar bu ...

, a centrally primitive idempotent or the ideal it generates

Sports

* Block, a defensive shot in

pickleball Pickleball is an indoor or outdoor racket/paddle sport where two players (singles), or four players (doubles), hit a perforated hollow polymer ball over a net using solid-faced paddles. Opponents on either side of the net hit the ball back and ...

Block (basketball) In basketball, a block or blocked shot occurs when a defensive player legally deflects a field goal attempt from an offensive player to prevent a score. The defender is not allowed to make contact with the offensive player's hand (unless the de ...

, when a defensive player legally deflects a shot *

Blocking (martial arts) In martial arts, blocking is the act of stopping or deflecting an opponent's attack for the purpose of preventing injurious contact with the body. A block usually consists of placing a limb across the line of the attack. Examples in specific ar ...

* Starting blocks, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run *

Block (cricket) In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...

, when a batsman deflects the ball to avoid getting out *

The Block (basketball) The Block was a defensive basketball play that occurred in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals, played between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors on June 19, 2016, at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. With less than two minutes remai ...

, a defensive play in game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals

Transportation

Block number The Tri-Service aircraft designation system is a unified system introduced in 1962 by the United States Department of Defense for designating all U.S. military aircraft. Previously, the U.S. armed services used separate nomenclature systems. ...

, a system to differentiate between groups of aircraft of the same type with minor variants *

Signalling block system Signalling block systems enable the safe and efficient operation of railways by preventing collisions between trains. The basic principle is that a track is broken up into a series of sections or "blocks". Only one train may occupy a block at a ...

, a way of controlling train movement

People

* Block (musician) (Jamie Block), an anti-folk musician based in New York, US

Other uses

Block letters Block letters (known as printscript, manuscript, print writing or ball and stick in academics) are a sans-serif (or "gothic") style of writing Latin script in which the letters are individual glyphs, with no joining. Elementary education in Eng ...

(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 In philately, a block is a group of four or more un-separated stamps. Blocks are of interest not only because they are rarer than individual stamps, but they also preserve relative positions of stamps as they were originally printed, informatio ...

, an attached group of postage stamps