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blockmodel

blockmodel is the alternative spelling of block model.

Meaning of block model

Noun

block model (plural block models)

  1. A scale model of a ship to be built, showing the vessel's water line.
    • ...the young shipwright is next desired to prepare a block model to the timbers, which, if correctly proportioned, will displace water equal to the weight of the vessel...1827, "Naval Architecture", Mechanics Magazine, volume 6, page 35
  2. A simplified model of a ship with flat sides.
    • To show more clearly the relation of the block model to that of the actual ship, I have selected No. 4 in the Table...1880, A.C. Kirk, “On a Method of Analyzing the Form of Ships”, in Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, volume 21, page 100
  3. A model of a network made by dividing it into blocks

Forms of blockmodel

pluralblockmodels

Questions about blockmodel

What is blockmodel the alternative spelling of?
Blockmodel is the alternative spelling of block model.

Words near blockmodel in the dictionary

  1. blockmaker
  2. blockmakers
  3. blockmaking
  4. blockmate
  5. blockmates
  6. blockmodel
  7. blockmodeling
  8. blockmodels
  9. blocko
  10. blockorama
  11. blockoramas

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