Blocking

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Blocking may refer to:

Telecommunications and computing

Theatre and film

Sport

Behaviour

Other

  • Blocking (textile arts), the process of stretching a knitted garment into shape while wet or using steam
  • Blocking (statistics), in the design of experiments, the arranging of experimental units in groups (blocks) which are similar to one another
  • Blocking in western blot, a process to prevent unwanted binding of antibody to the membrane
  • Blocking (construction), horizontal boards placed between wall studs to facilitate hardware attachment
  • Atmospheric blocking (meteorology), large scale stationary pressure cells

See also

  • Block (disambiguation)
  • Non-blocking (disambiguation), for computers running multiple programs at once, it is important for no single task waiting for completion of an operation to indefinitely block the processing of any other task
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