Block or blocked may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Broadcasting

* Block programming, 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 lice ...

, a radio station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States known as ''96.3 the Block '' *

WFNZ-FM WFNZ-FM (92.7 MHz) is a sports radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina owned and operated by Radio One. The station's studios are located at 1 Julian Price Place just off Morehead Street in Charlotte. The transmitter site is in Charlotte's N ...

, 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 and releasing artist Yung Joc. In 2005 Block signed an excl ...

, 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 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 wi ...

, 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. Th ...

, 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 compres ...

, 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), 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 Block is an unincorporated community in Miami County, Kansas Miami County (county code MI) is a county located in east-central Kansas and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 34,191. ...

, an unincorporated community, US *

Block, Tennessee Block is an unincorporated community and coal town in Campbell County, Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by ...

, 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 Washing ...

, 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 Mete ...

, 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 relat ...

, 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 thu ...

, 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 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) but exceptionally may extend to all Inte ...

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 b ...

, a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit * Block (telecommunications), 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, 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 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 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 ''reeve ...

, 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 (sometimes referred to as simply "nerve block") is a short-term block, u ...

, or regional nerve blockade, any deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief **

Local anesthetic nerve block Local anesthetic nerve block (local anesthetic regional nerve blockade, or often simply nerve block) is a short-term nerve block involving the injection of local anesthetic as close to the nerve as possible for pain relief. The local anesthetic ...

(sometimes referred to as simply "nerve block"), a short-term block **

, the deliberate temporary degeneration of nerve fibers to produce a block that may persist for weeks, months, or indefinitely **

Neurectomy A neurectomy is a type of nerve block involving the severing or removal of a nerve. This surgery is performed in rare cases of severe chronic pain where no other treatments have been successful, and for other conditions such as vertigo, involuntar ...

, 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 ...

(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'' ~ '' ...

* Block, in modular representation theory * Block, in graph theory, is a

biconnected component In graph theory, a biconnected component (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. The blocks ...

, 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 blo ...

, 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 ma ...

* Block of a ring, 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) * 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 is a New York City-based musician, known for being a prominent member of New York's anti-folk movement. Style and Lyrics Block has been considered one of the early participants in New York's anti-folk movement, a raw and subversive ...

(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 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 schools in the American K-12 system, in which each pupil has fewer classes per day. It is more common in middle and high schools than in primary schools. Each class is schedu ...

, 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 milliners to produce a hat. Today there are only a handful of block shap ...

, 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