Blocking

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Blocking may refer to:

• In telecommunications:

1. The formatting of data into blocks for purposes of transmission, storage, checking, or other functions. See block size and block storage.
2. Denying access to, or use of, a facility, system, or component.
3. The failure of a telecommunications network to meet a user service demand, because of the lack of an available communications path.

• In theatre:

1. Blocking (improv), a term used in improvisation.
2. Blocking (stage), the movement and positioning of actors on the stage.

• In film:

1. Blocking (film), the movement and positioning of the camera and actors in a scene.

• Blocking (American football), the legal interference with another player's motion.
• Blocking (statistics), in the theory of design of experiments.

• In combat, a synonym for defense, thus meaning "defending from attacks by an opponent". Blocking with a weapon is called parrying.

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