A block is a compact piece of material.
A block is a large piece of compact material . The etymology of the word takes us to the French bloc and the Dutch blok . For example: "A huge block of ice caused the ship to almost capsize" , "A worker died when a concrete block fell on his head" .
In this sense we would have to explain that specifically within the field of construction the term in question is also used and with various meanings. However, one of the most frequently used is the one that refers to an ashlar that is made of concrete .
Block is, on the other hand, the building that includes several houses of the same height and that have similar characteristics, and the block of houses .
Block as grouping
The concept of bloc also refers to an occasional grouping of organizations , countries or political parties that share certain objectives: "The left bloc decided to promote a request for impeachment of the mayor" , "The fall of the communist bloc was a hard economic blow for Cuba» , «Gómez, Rinaldi and Formet decided to separate from their parties and form a new bloc in the Senate « .
Starting from this meaning we would also find the fact that throughout the entire world geography there is a large number of political formations that incorporate the term bloc in their name. This would be the case, for example, of the Galician Nationalist Bloc party that exists in Spain and specifically in the autonomous community of Galicia . The aforementioned was founded in 1982 , is located on the left and, in addition to all this, has independence and socialism as its ideology.
Other political formations that follow the line of the previous one are the Sadr Bloc in Iraq , the Democratic Sanitation Bloc in Chile and the so-called Socialist Bloc also in Chile .
Acting as a block implies acting together.
Act together
Acting as a block is acting together . The phrase is usually used when you want to explain that a group of people acted in solidarity and without distinction to achieve a common goal.
"The team played as a block and formed a defensive wall that could never be overcome by the rival" and "The neighbors as a block got to work to rebuild the house that was destroyed by the fire" are expressions that show this use.
Block in computing
In computing , a block is the smallest amount of data that can be transferred between the computer 's main memory and a peripheral device (or vice versa).
Typically, the physical size of the data block is larger than the logical record.
a rock group
In addition to all of the above, we cannot ignore the fact that Block is the name of a rock music group that was founded in Cantabria ( Spain ) in the 1970s and that marked a milestone in the panorama of the moment.
There were five albums that this formation released to the market and among them the first stood out precisely for having the same term that we are now analyzing as its title. Paco Baños , Luis Pastor and Juan José Respond were some of the members of the aforementioned group.