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, 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 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 building block or unit for construction * Glass brick, 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, the smallest area that is surrounded by streets

Places

United States

* Block, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Block, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Block, Tennessee, an unincorporated community * Block Island, an island in the state of Rhode Island

Science and technology

* Block (periodic table), 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., 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), technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources ** Blocking access to certain websites is one form of internet censorship * Block or subnet 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), 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, 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), 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) * 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 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 *

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) *

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), 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 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 (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