blocking
Pronunciation: /ˈblɒkɪŋ/
The English word “blocking” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
- 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.
- A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
- A rectangular discontinuity as an artifact of separating a discrete signal into blocks that are processed individually.
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