Block or blocked may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Broadcasting

Block programming Block programming (also known as a strand in British broadcasting) is the 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 ...

, 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 The Flash is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1 (cover date, cover-dated Jan ...

Music

* Block Entertainment, a record label *

Blocks Recording Club Blocks Recording Club was a Canadian co-operative of musicians, which served as both a collaborative artist community and a record label for its member artists.Woodblock (instrument) A woodblock (also spelled as two words, wood block) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood. The term generally signifies the Classical music, Western orchestral instrument, but may also refer to the Wooden fish, Chinese woodblock. ...

, 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 The music of the 2011 video game ''Minecraft'', developed by Mojang Studios, primarily consists of two soundtrack albums by German musician Daniel Rosenfeld, better known as C418. American composer Lena Raine has also contributed music for four ...

'', 2013

Toys

Toy block Toy blocks (also building bricks, building blocks, or simply blocks) are wooden, plastic, or foam pieces of various shapes (cube, cylinder, arch etc.) and colors that are used as construction toys. Sometimes, toy blocks depict letters of the al ...

, 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 games

* 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 compressed earth block (CEB), also known as a pressed earth block or a compressed soil block, is a building material made primarily from an appropriate mix of fairly dry inorganic subsoil, non-expansive clay, sand, and aggregate. Forming comp ...

, a building block or unit for construction *

Glass brick Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. The appearance of glass blocks can vary in color, size, texture and form. Glass bricks provide visual obscuration while admitting light. The modern glass block ...

, also known as glass block *

Tower block A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction. ...

, 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), 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. In a city with a grid system, the block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets. City blocks are th ...

, the smallest area that is surrounded by streets

Places

United States

Block, Illinois Block is an unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Block is located along the Union Pacific railroad line northeast of Villa Grove. Block (also known locally as Block Station) was created in 1903-1904 when the Ch ...

, an unincorporated community *

Block, Kansas Block is an unincorporated community in Miami County, Kansas Miami County is a County (United States), county located in East-Central Kansas, east-central Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Its county se ...

, an unincorporated community *

Block, Tennessee Block is an unincorporated community and coal town in Campbell County, Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United ...

, an unincorporated community *

Block Island Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago in New England, located approximately south of mainland Rhode Island and east of Long Island's Montauk Point. The island is coterminous with the town of New Shoreham, Rhode Isl ...

, an island in the state of Rhode Island

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 seems to have been first used by Charles Janet. Each block is named after its characteristic orbital: s-bl ...

, 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 Tectonics, tectonic and localized stresses in Crust (geology), Earth's crust. Large areas of bedrock are broken up into blocks by Fault (geology) ...

, a geologic zone or geologic province *

Block, Inc. Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.) is an American technology company and a financial services provider for consumers and merchants. Founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey, it is the U.S. market leader in Point of sale, point-of-sale systems. As of 20 ...

, an American technology company formerly known as Square

Computing

Blockchain The blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of Record (computer science), records (''blocks'') that are securely linked together via Cryptographic hash function, cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of th ...

, 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 fixed length; a ''block size''. Data thus ...

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

Block (Internet) On the Internet, a block 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. Blocking may also refer to denying ac ...

, technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources ** Blocking access to certain websites is one form of

internet censorship Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as ''Wikipedia.org'', for example) but exceptionally may ...

* Block or

subnet A subnet, or subnetwork, is a logical subdivision of an IP network. Updated by RFC 6918. The practice of dividing a network into two or more networks is called subnetting. Computers that belong to the same subnet are addressed with an identica ...

of the Internet, a subset of the internet in a set of contiguous IP addresses *

Block (programming) In computer programming, a block or code block or block of code is a lexical structure of source code which is grouped together. Blocks consist of one or more declarations and statements. A programming language that permits the creation of bl ...

, 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) 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 ...

, a named range of codepoints in Unicode **

Block Elements Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading. Used along with block elements are box-drawing characters, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of t ...

, a Unicode block of block-shaped characters

Engineering

Engine block In an internal combustion engine, the engine block is the structure that contains the cylinders and other components. The engine block in an early automotive engine consisted of just the cylinder block, to which a separate crankcase was attach ...

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, or to a surface. A line (rope) is ''r ...

, a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats

Medicine

Nerve block Nerve block or regional nerve blockade is any deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief. #Local anesthetic nerve block, Local anesthetic nerve block (sometimes referred to as simply "nerve b ...

, 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) In mathematics and group theory, a block system for the action of a group ''G'' on a set ''X'' is a partition of ''X'' that is ''G''-invariant. In terms of the associated equivalence relation on ''X'', ''G''-invariance means that :''x'' ~ ''y' ...

* 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 h ...

* Block, in graph theory, is a

biconnected component In graph theory, a biconnected component or block (sometimes known as a 2-connected component) is a maximal biconnected subgraph. Any connected graph decomposes into a tree of biconnected components called the block-cut tree of the graph. Th ...

, 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 number of occurrences of each element satisfies certain conditions making the co ...

, 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 matrix w ...

* Block of a ring, a centrally primitive idempotent or the ideal it generates

Sports

* Block, a defensive shot in

pickleball Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two or four players use a smooth-faced paddle to hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball over a net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits a rule infraction. Pickleball is played i ...

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

, when a defensive player legally deflects a shot * Block (cricket), when a batsman deflects the ball to avoid getting out *

Blocking (American football) In American football, blocking or interference (or running interference) involves legal movements in which one player uses his body to obstruct another player's path. The purpose of blocking is to prevent defensive players from tackling the ball c ...

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 Starting blocks are a device used in the sport of track and field by Sprint (running), sprint athletes to brace their feet against at the start of a race so they do not slip as they stride forward at the sound of the starter's pistol. The blocks ...

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

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 rem ...

, 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 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 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, printing 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 educat ...

(also known as printscript, manuscript, print writing, or ball and stick in academics), a sans-serif (or "Gothic") style of writing *

Block party A block party or street party is a party in which many members of a single community congregate, either to observe an event of some importance or simply for mutual solidarity and enjoyment. The name comes from the form of the party, which ofte ...

(also known as street party), a community social event *

Block scheduling Block scheduling or blocking is a type of academic scheduling used in some schools in the American K-12, K-12 system, in which Student, students have fewer but longer classes per day than in a traditional academic schedule. It is more common in m ...

, a type of academic scheduling *

Hat block A hat block, also known as a hat form or bashing block, is a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman known as a block shaper. It is used by hat makers and Hatmaking, milliners to produce a hat. Today there are only a handful of ...

, 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

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Toys

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Places

United States

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