Blocking
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Blocking may refer to:
Telecommunications and computing
- Blocking (computing), holding up a task until an event occurs
- Head-of-line blocking in some network switching fabrics
- Internet blocking, see Block (Internet)
Theatre and film
- Blocking (stage), the movement and positioning of actors on the stage (and in film, within the frame)
- Blocking (animation)
Sport
- Blocking (American football), the legal interference with another player's motion
- Blocking (martial arts), a defensive technique in martial arts
Behaviour
- Thought blocking, a type of thought disorder
- Blocking effect, in psychology
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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