Superblock may refer to:
Urban planning
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Superblock (urban planning)
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 ...
, a type of city block that is much larger than a traditional city block
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Superblock (University of Minnesota), a section of the Health area in the East Bank of the Minneapolis campus, US
** Superblock, a former large area formed after urban renewal in the
cityscape of Huntington, West Virginia, US
Computing
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Superblock (file system), a segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device, as in the Unix File System
* Superblock, in the
density matrix renormalization group
The density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) is a numerical variational technique devised to obtain the low-energy physics of quantum many-body systems with high accuracy. As a variational method, DMRG is an efficient algorithm that attempts ...
numerical technique
* Superblock algorithm, in the
pairwise summation numerical analysis
* Superblock, of pixels, for example in the
AV1
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium founded in 2015 tha ...
video coding format, or VP9
* Superblocks, of memory in the Hoard
C dynamic memory allocation
C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions in the C standard library, namely , , , and .
The C++ programming language include ...
See also
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Superblock scheduling, a type of instruction scheduling
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