### block:

Slab
* are blocks
  - hot or cold rolled into sheet metal or plates
* can vary in thickness from a few centimetres to three metres.
* create floors in building models.
* fail initially as a unit and then break up into smaller blocks as the snow moves downslope.
* generally have a thickness that is much less than both their length and width.
* have factors.
* includes sections.

### block | slab:

Concrete slab
* are subject to bending stresses, deflections, sags, creep, and cracking.
* can effectively span spaces and carry loads without deforming.

### block | slab:

Tile
* absorb energy.
* allow the child to create cubes, pyramids and other shapes.
* are ceramic
  - covering
* are located in computer games
  - homes
  - roofs
  - rooms
  - showers
  - walls
  - made of clay
  - men
  - part of roofs
  - slabs
  - solid objects
  - the simplest form of ceramic art
* are used for art
  - bathrooms
  - builds
  - decoration
  - flooring
  - kitchens
  - wall covering
  - wood and marble sculptures that cast shadows
* drained soils are essential for no-till agriculture on any soil type.
* have color
  - sides
  - surfaces
* is considered any decorative, modular surface covering
  - more expensive than carpeting and comparable to wood
* layer of hot rock under the crust but above the core.
* vary in size, thickness and density.
+ Mosaic, Making mosaics: Art
  * Some tiles look as if they are made of pure gold. The side with the gold gets put into the mortar. Then the gold can be seen through the glass, but cannot be scratched off.

### block | slab | tile:

Porcelain tile
* has a long life cycle that results in fewer replacements and reduced waste.
* have excellent chemical resistance.
* is also frost-proof, so it can be used in swimming pools and fountains
  - virtually impervious to stains and wear

Tessera
* are part of mosaic
* is the Greek word for mosaic.

Blockbuster
* are hits
  - television shows
  - the movies that seem most poised to rake in the big money
* have many uses, such as relaxation, crawling, hopping and tossing.
+ Art film, A comparison of an art movie and a blockbuster movie: Movies
  * To understand why movie directors make art movies, one has to know about blockbuster movies. Blockbuster movies are part of the reason why people make art films. Movie directors making art films try to make them very different from blockbuster movies. The movie is a more personal statement by the director. Blockbusters are made for commercial reasons and art films are made for personal reasons.
  * Blockbusters often use simple stories and characters that have been used before in other movies. Art movies usually use strange or unusual stories and characters that the audience may not have seen before.

### blocking | supporting | balancing:

Load balancing
* becomes a problem in cellular layouts under dynamic demand patterns.
* can also refer to the communications channels themselves.
* crucial component of building scalable systems.
* function of knowing all the available paths to a given destination network.
* increases the use of network segments, thus increasing effective network bandwidth.
* is an important problem in parallel computing
  - outbound service, handling only packets being sent from the server
  - another method service providers use to stream media across multiple servers
  - vital in parallel computation
* means directing routines to individual processors.

### blocks:

Abstract type
* have existential types.
* represent sets of concrete types.