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block

In computing, a group of records treated as a complete unit for transfer to or from backing storage. For example, many disk drives transfer data in 512-byte blocks.



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You would probably recognise it by its rectangular blocky shape and it is widely used for heavy duty equipment like smoke detectors, radio controlled toy cars and airplanes and even large digital clocks.
They were blocky and needed to be broken up, he said, with more of my natural colour put back through.
The channel contains polygonal patterns, branched channels, blocky debris and mound/cone formations, all of which are similar to formations found where permafrost melts on Earth.
 
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