Definition of "blocking" in English

verb

1. present participle and gerund of block

noun

1. The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.

   • blocking of major opposition sites

2. The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).

3. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.

4. (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.

5. (signal processing) A rectangular discontinuity as an artifact of separating a discrete signal into blocks that are processed individually.