Definitions for city block
city block

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. block, city blocknoun

   a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings

   "he lives in the next block"

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1. city blocknoun

   The smallest part of a town enclosed by streets.

2. city blocknoun

   The distance from one street to the next.

3. city blocknoun

   A distance comparable to the distance between streets in a city, in the approximate range of 0.2–0.4 km.

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1. City block

   A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. A city block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets, not counting any type of thoroughfare within the area of a building or comparable structure. City blocks are the space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban fabric. City blocks may be subdivided into any number of smaller land lots usually in private ownership, though in some cases, it may be other forms of tenure. City blocks are usually built-up to varying degrees and thus form the physical containers or "streetwalls" of public space. Most cities are composed of a greater or lesser variety of sizes and shapes of urban block. For example, many pre-industrial cores of cities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East tend to have irregularly shaped street patterns and urban blocks, while cities based on grids have much more regular arrangements. By extension, the word "block" is an important informal unit of length equal to the distance between two streets of a street grid.

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1. city block

   A city block is a small area of a town or city enclosed by adjacent streets. It can also be referred to as a planned public space, typically rectangular, that is entirely or almost entirely surrounded by buildings. City blocks form the basic unit of a city's overall layout. The term "city block" can also be used as a measure of distance, especially in North America, equal to the length or perimeter of one block in a city's grid of streets.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of city block in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of city block in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of city block in a Sentence

1. Keith Bannister:

   If we were to stand on the Moon and look down at the Earth with this precision, we would be able to tell not only which city the burst came from, but which postcode -- and even which city block.

2. Josh Campbell:

   Portland is not a city under siege. Today, I went to a Starbucks downtown, ate lunch at one of the city's famous downtown food trucks, and bought a new pair of shoes at the mall. As I write this, I'm looking out of my hotel room at a bike tour riding by outside on the downtown street, to be sure, there have been protests -- peaceful during the daytime, and some turning violent at night -- for over 90 days, but the rioting has largely been confined to one city block downtown near the federal courthouse. Last night, protesters showed up at a police precinct a few miles from downtown and were dispersed by police after some protesters started throwing eggs and rocks at police cars. There has been periodic, localized violence, but nothing widespread.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=city block
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/City_Block
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Block
4. ^ ChatGPT
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