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deblocking

deblocking is the present participle and gerund of deblock.

Meaning of deblock

Verb

deblock (third-person singular simple present deblocks, present participle deblocking, simple past and past participle deblocked)

  1. (transitive) To unblock; remove a blockage from.
  2. (transitive) To separate the logical records that have been combined into a physical block for storage.
  3. (transitive) To process (digital video) so as to remove block-shaped artifacts of encoding.

Noun

deblocking (countable and uncountable, plural deblockings)

  1. The removal of a block or blockage.

Forms of deblocking

pluraldeblockings

Questions about deblocking

What does deblocking mean?
Deblocking means the removal of a block or blockage.
What is deblocking the present participle and gerund of?
Deblocking is the present participle and gerund of deblock.
What part of speech is deblocking?
Deblocking is a noun.
What is the plural of deblocking?
The plural of deblocking is deblockings.

Words near deblocking in the dictionary

  1. deblockage
  2. deblockages
  3. deblocked
  4. deblocker
  5. deblockers
  6. deblocking
  7. deblockings
  8. deblocks
  9. deblouse
  10. debloused
  11. deblouses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deblocking (page history and authors); deblock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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