Block

  1. When referring to a hard disk drive or other storage medium, a block is a segment of a large area that can be assigned to store data.
  2. When referring to computer programming, a block is a conditional statement or loop in code. Below is an example of a conditional statement block.

if (conditional statement) {
print "Computer Hope";
}

Also see: Burst, Hard disk drive definitions, Memory definitions, Programming definitions, Super block