blocking
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
blocking
- present participle and gerund of block
Noun[edit]
blocking (countable and uncountable, plural blockings)
- The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
- blocking of major opposition sites
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- 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.
- The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
- Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
- (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
- 2011, John St. Clair, Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine, page 218:
- 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.
- (signal processing) A rectangular discontinuity as an artifact of separating a discrete signal into blocks that are processed individually.
- 2017, Sekine Asadi Amiri, Hamid Hassanpour, Image compression using JPEG with reduced blocking effects via adaptive down-sampling and self-learning image sparse representation, , page 1:
- Blocking is an annoying effect in image compression using JPEG especially at low bit-rates.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the act of blocking
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block used for temporary support
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