Block may refer to: A way of controlling train movement in railway signalling Postage stamp block, an attached group of postage stamps Program block, the result of a programming strategy in broadcasting

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Objects

• A large concrete or stone brick
• Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
• Cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
• 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
• Freewheel, a set of rear sprockets that attaches to a hub on the rear wheel
• Wood block a small piece of slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
• Hat block a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman known as a block shaper
• Executioner's block

Unit of land

• Block - district subdivision, a unit of government in some South Asian countries
• Census block, the smallest geographical unit in the U.S. Census Bureau
• City block, an area surrounded but not divided by streets

Science

• Block (extraction of petroleum), a sub-division of an underground reservoir
• Block (meteorology), large-scale near-stationary patterns in the atmospheric pressure field

Sports

• Blocking (American football), when a player obstructs another player's path
• Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
• Blocking (martial arts), a defensive technique in the martial arts

Technology

• Block (data storage), the practice of storing electronic data in equally-sized units
• Block-level element in the HTML markup language
• Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
• Statement block, a segment of a program
• Block (internet), technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources
• Boom Blox, a video game for the Wii console from EA, previously known as Blocks

Mathematics

• Block design, a kind of set system in combinatorial mathematics
• Block (group theory)
• In graph theory, a maximally 2-connected subgraph or a bridge with its endvertices
• Blocks are the elements of a block matrix

Music

• Block Entertainment, a record label
• Blocks Recording Club, a record label
• Block form musical form

See also

• Blocking
• Bloc

People

• Malú Block, born María Luisa Cabrera (1904–1989), Mexican artist