blocking

The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.

Noun

  1. The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
    • blocking of major opposition sites
    • Miss H.'s voice was clear and intelligible, although it alternated between vocal blockings and extreme vocal hurry, every clause being jetted out suddenly, and rapidly decaying into aphonia. - 1973, Oliver Sacks,...
  2. The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
  3. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
  4. A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
    • Examine your matrix map, and make sure that no three keystrokes form a rectangle with a fourth keystroke that will cause you problems. This prevents both ghosting and blocking. - 2011, John St. Clair, Project Arcade:...
  5. A rectangular discontinuity as an artifact of separating a discrete signal into blocks that are processed individually.
    • Blocking is an annoying effect in image compression using JPEG especially at low bit-rates. - 2017, Sekine Asadi Amiri, Hamid Hassanpour, Image compression using JPEG with reduced blocking effects via adaptive...

Forms

blockings

Derived

absolute blocking adblocking antiblocking bed blocking blocking and tackling blocking unit geo-blocking immunoblocking neuroblocking thought blockingalpha-adrenergic blocking agent

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of block