Block
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 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 === 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 high-rise building == Land subdivisions == Block (district subdivision), 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), large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field Fault block, a geologic zone or geologic province Block, Inc., an American technology company formerly known as Square === Computing === Blockchain, a segment of an open list of data records Block (data storage), 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), 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 named range of codepoints in Unicode Block Elements, a Unicode block of block-shaped characters === Engineering === Engine block and cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats === Medicine === Nerve block, 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, a kind of set system in combinatorial mathematics Block matrix Block of a ring, a centrally primitive idempotent or the ideal it generates == Sports == Block, a defensive shot in pickleball Block (basketball), 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) Starting 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 (aircraft), a system to differentiate between groups of US military aircraft of the same type with minor variants Signalling block system, a way of controlling train movement Blocking (transport), a way to assign public transport vehicles on a schedule.