Usually means: Preventing something from moving forward.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. blocking: Merriam-Webster
  2. blocking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blocking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blocking: Vocabulary.com
  5. Blocking, blocking: Wordnik
  6. blocking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. blocking: Wiktionary
  8. blocking: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. blocking: Dictionary.com
  10. blocking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Blocking (American football), Blocking (Wikipedia), Blocking (animation), Blocking (computing), Blocking (construction), Blocking (linguistics), Blocking (martial arts), Blocking (radio), Blocking (stage), Blocking (statistics), Blocking (textile arts), Blocking (transport), Blocking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Blocking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. blocking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. blocking: Rhymezone
  15. Blocking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. blocking: FreeDictionary.org
  17. blocking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. blocking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Blocking: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. blocking: Legal dictionary
  3. blocking: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. blocking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. blocking: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  6. blocking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blocking: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Blocking: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Statistics (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blocking: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Blocking: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. blocking: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Blocking: Bay Area Video Preservation
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  7. Blocking: Construction Glossary
  8. blocking: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blocking)

noun:  The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
noun:  The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
noun:  Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
noun:  (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
noun:  (signal processing) A rectangular discontinuity as an artifact of separating a discrete signal into blocks that are processed individually.

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