Block

Block or blocked may refer to:

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 (The Flash), 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 game

 * Blocked (video game), a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Building and construction

 * 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

 * 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

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

 * 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
 * IP range or block 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
 * 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

 * 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 (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