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:
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
“O hideous little bat, the size of snot,
With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)