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block

sequence of bytes or bits, having a nominal length (a block size)
Class type of: data structure, unit, record Q1146944

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
unit of measurement
Subclass of
data structure, unit, record[2][3][4]
Part of
drive[5]
Different from
blocking, disk sector, record, chunk[9][10][11][12]
Has characteristic
block size[8]
Used by
logical block addressing, block cipher[6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en block en block of data en data block en disk block en sector en physical record en logical sector en logical block ar بلوك ar فِدرة ar وحدة بيانات مُجمَّعة ar وحدة مُجمَّعة cs blok de Speicherblock de Datenblock de Blockbasierte Adressierung es bloque fa بلاک fi blokki fi lohko
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/01tjzv
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
152896618
UN/CEFACT Common Code
D64

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🔗 Connections
Different from 2
record, disk sector
Used by 2
block cipher, logical block addressing
Has characteristic 1
block size
Has these parts 1
header
Instance of 1
unit of measurement
Part of 1
drive
Subclass of 1
data structure
Subtypes 1
data cluster
← Contains 1
disk sector
← Different from 1
disk sector
← Uses 1
block cipher
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Summary

block is an unit of measurement[1].

Related Entities

drive

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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