1. A group of information units (such as records, words, characters, or digits) that are transported or considered as a single unit by virtue of their being stored in successive storage locations; for example, a group of logical records constituting a physical record.

2. The section of a computer memory or storage device that stores such a group of information units. Also known as storage block.

3. To combine two or more information units into a single unit.

4. A contiguous group of text characters that is marked for moving, copying, saving, deletion, or some other word-processing operation.

1. A metal or wood case enclosing one or more pulleys; has a hook with which it can be attached to an object.

2. See <<cylinder block>>

1. A division of a mine, usually bounded by workings but sometimes by survey lines or other arbitrary limits.

2. In quarrying, a large portion of rock that is removed from the quarry as a solid mass for further processing at a mill.

The subdivision of a sea area for the licensing of oil and gas exploration and production rights.

In experimental design, a homogeneous aggregation of items under observation, such as a group of contiguous plots of land or all animals in a litter.