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superblocks

superblocks is the plural of superblock.

Meaning of superblock

Noun

superblock (plural superblocks)

  1. (urban studies) A very large block of buildings; in modern urban planning often designed for local needs, with access and speed restrictions.
    • All are blots on the urban environment, as blandly homogenous in their own way as the Modernist superblocks they were intended to improve on.2008 March 21, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “What Will Be Left of Gehry’s Vision for Brooklyn?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021
  2. A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.

Questions about superblocks

What is superblocks the plural of?
Superblocks is the plural of superblock.

Words near superblocks in the dictionary

  1. superblasts
  2. superblizzard
  3. superblizzards
  4. superbloc
  5. superblock
  6. superblocks
  7. superblocs
  8. superbloom
  9. superblooms
  10. superblunder
  11. superblunders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: superblocks (page history and authors); superblock (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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