Block or blocked may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Broadcasting
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Block programming, the result of a programming strategy in broadcasting
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W242BX, a radio station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States known as 96.3 the Block
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WFNZ-FM, a radio station licensed to Harrisburg, North Carolina, United States, branded as 92.7 The Block
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"Blocked", an episode of the television series The Flash
Music
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Block Entertainment, a record label
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Blocks Recording Club, a record label
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Woodblock (instrument), a small piece of slit drum made from one piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument
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"Blocks", by C418 from Minecraft – Volume Beta, 2013
Toys
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Toy block, one of a set of wooden or plastic pieces, of various shapes
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Unit block, a type of standardized wooden toy block for children
Video games
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Blocked (video game), a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Building and construction
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Concrete block, cinder block or cement block, a concrete masonry unit for building
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Compressed earth block, a building block or unit for construction
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Glass brick, also known as glass block
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Tower block, a high-rise building
Land subdivisions
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Block (district subdivision), administrative region in some South Asian countries
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Block (rural Australia), a small agricultural landholding
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City block, the smallest area that is surrounded by streets
Places
United States
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Block, Illinois, an unincorporated community
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Block, Kansas, an unincorporated community
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Block, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
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Block Island, an island in the state of Rhode Island
Science and technology
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Block (periodic table), a set of adjacent groups in the periodic table
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Block (meteorology), large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field
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Fault block, a geologic zone or geologic province
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Block, Inc., an American technology company formerly known as Square
Computing
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Blockchain, a segment of an open list of data records
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Block (data storage), the practice of storing electronic data in equally sized units
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Block (Internet), technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources
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Blocking access to certain websites is one form of internet censorship
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Block or subnet of the Internet, a subset of the internet in a set of contiguous IP addresses
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Block (programming), a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit
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Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
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Block artifact, a type of distortion in a compressed image
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Block-level element, in the HTML markup language
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Blocks (C language extension), an extension to the C programming language designed to support parallel programming
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Unicode block, a named range of codepoints in Unicode
Engineering
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Engine block and cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
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Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
Medicine
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Nerve block, or regional nerve blockade, any deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief
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Third-degree atrioventricular block (AV block), a medical condition
Mathematics
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Block (permutation group theory)
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Block, in modular representation theory
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Block, in graph theory, is a biconnected component, a maximal biconnected subgraph of a graph
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Aschbacher block of a finite group
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Block design, a kind of set system in combinatorial mathematics
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Block matrix
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Block of a ring, a centrally primitive idempotent or the ideal it generates
Sports
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Block, a defensive shot in pickleball
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Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
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Block (cricket), when a batsman deflects the ball to avoid getting out
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Blocking (American football)
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Blocking (martial arts)
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Starting blocks, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run
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The Block (basketball), a defensive play in game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals
Transportation
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Block number, a system to differentiate between groups of aircraft of the same type with minor variants
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Signalling block system, a way of controlling train movement
People
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Block (musician) (Jamie Block), an anti-folk musician based in New York, US
Other uses
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Block letters (also known as printscript, manuscript, print writing, or ball and stick in academics), a sans-serif (or "Gothic") style of writing
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Block party (also known as street party), a community social event
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Block scheduling, a type of academic scheduling
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Hat block, or block shaper, a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman
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Postage stamp block, an attached group of postage stamps
See also
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Block House (disambiguation)
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Block Party (disambiguation)
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The Block (disambiguation)
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Blockbuster (disambiguation)
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Blockhead (disambiguation)
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Bloc (disambiguation)
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Blockade (disambiguation)
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Blockbuster (disambiguation)
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Blocker (disambiguation)
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Blocking (disambiguation)
