# 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, 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