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• Block scheduling — is a type of academic scheduling in which each student has fewer classes per day for a longer period of time. This is intended to result in more time for teaching due to less class switching and preparation. It also allows for a student to take… …   Wikipedia

• BLOCK, HERBERT LAWRENCE — (Herblock; 1909–2001), U.S. editorial cartoonist. Born in Chicago, Block started to draw when he was quite young and won a scholarship to the Chicago Art Institute at 12. His critical eye and rapier pen made him one of the leading journalists of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Block programming — or television block is a strategy of broadcast programming and radio programmers. Block programming occurs when the television network schedules similar television programs back to back. The concept is to provide similar programming to keep the… …   Wikipedia

• Block Party (album) — Block Party Studio album by Missy Elliott Released TBA …   Wikipedia

• Block E (Minneapolis) — Block E is the name of a block on Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis that is also bordered by 7th Street, 1st Avenue North, and 6th Street. It is considered part of the Downtown West neighborhood in Minneapolis, but the block is more of a… …   Wikipedia

• Block Truncation Coding — Block Truncation Coding, or BTC, is a type of lossy image compression technique for greyscale images. It divides the original images into blocks and then uses a quantiser to reduce the number of grey levels in each block whilst maintaining the… …   Wikipedia

• block — [bläk] n. [ME blokke < OFr bloc & MDu block < IE * bhlugo < base * bhel , a thick plank, beam > BALK, Gr phalanx, L fulcrum] 1. any large, solid piece of wood, stone, or metal, often with flat surfaces 2. a blocklike stand or platform …   English World dictionary

• Block Music — Studio album by Shawnna Released June 6, 2006 ( …   Wikipedia

• Block suballocation — is a feature of some computer file systems which allows large blocks or allocation units to be used while making efficient use of slack space at the end of large files, space which would otherwise be lost for other use to internal fragmentation.… …   Wikipedia

• block´i|ness — block|y «BLOK ee», adjective, block|i|er, block|i|est. 1. like a block; chunky; solid: »a blocky pony …   Useful english dictionary