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Arts, entertainment and media[edit]
Broadcasting[edit]
- 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 (The Flash), an episode of the television series The Flash
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Music[edit]
- 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
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Toys[edit]
- 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 game[edit]
- Blocked (video game), a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch
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Building and construction[edit]
- Breeze block, cinder block or cement block, a concrete masonry unit for building
- Compressed earth block, a building block or unit for construction
- Tower block, a high-rise building
Land subdivisions[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Block, Illinois, an unincorporated community, US
- Block, Kansas, an unincorporated community, US
- Block, Tennessee, an unincorporated community, US
- Block Island, an island in the state of Rhode Island, US
Science and technology[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Block (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 (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[edit]
- Engine block and cylinder block, the main part of an internal combustion engine
- Block (sailing), a single or multiple pulley used on sailboats
Medicine[edit]
- Nerve block, or regional nerve blockade, any deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief
- Local anesthetic nerve block (sometimes referred to as simply “nerve block”), a short-term block
- Nerve block, the deliberate temporary degeneration of nerve fibers to produce a block that may persist for weeks, months, or indefinitely
- Neurectomy, the cutting through or removal of a nerve or a section of a nerve, which usually produces a permanent block
- Third-degree atrioventricular block (AV block), a medical condition
Mathematics[edit]
- 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
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Sports[edit]
- Block, a defensive shot in pickleball
- Block (basketball), when a defensive player legally deflects a shot
- Blocking (martial arts)
- Starting blocks, devices used by sprinters to assist in preventing their feet from slipping as they break into a run
- Block (cricket), when a batsman deflects the ball to avoid getting out
- The Block (basketball), a defensive play in game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals
