Block or blocked may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Broadcasting

* Block programming, the result of a programming strategy in broadcasting *

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, 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, 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 ''

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

Computing

* Block (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 (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 ** 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 (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 Glossary of pickleball terms#B, pickleball * Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot * Blocking (martial arts) * Starting blocks, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run * Block (cricket), when a batsman deflects the ball to avoid getting out * 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

* 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