Superblock

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A very large block of buildings; in modern urban planning often designed for local needs, with access and speed restrictions.

    "All are blots on the urban environment, as blandly homogenous in their own way as the Modernist superblocks they were intended to improve on."

  2. 2
    A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.

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"All are blots on the urban environment, as blandly homogenous in their own way as the Modernist superblocks they were intended to improve on."

Etymology

From super- + block.

Related phrases

block devicefile system

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