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** 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 , 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 (surname)]
- Block (musician) (Jamie Block), an anti-folk musician based in New York, US
** Other uses
- Block letters (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 , a type of academic scheduling
- Hat block , 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
** See also
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- [Blocked]
- Block House (disambiguation)
- Block Party (disambiguation)
- The Block (disambiguation)
- Blockbuster (disambiguation)
- Blockhead (disambiguation)
- Bloc (disambiguation)
- Blockade (disambiguation)
- Blockbuster (disambiguation)
- Blocker (disambiguation)
- Blocking (disambiguation)
[surname]