Block size can refer to:
- Block (data storage), the size of a block in data storage and file systems.
- Block size (cryptography), the minimal unit of data for block ciphers.
- Block size (mathematics)
Famous quotes containing the words block and/or size:
“No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)