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Definition of Bad block
1. Noun. (computer science) a block (usually one sector) that cannot reliably hold data.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bad Block
Literary usage of Bad block
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1906)
"It is sometimes the custom of new molders to constantly wet their hands while
molding, and this almost always produces a bad block, which usually cracks ..."
2. The Bibliographer (1882)
"Thus from time to time he sends forth a very bad block, and he never produces
work of the first order. ..."
3. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis (1890)
"... that the erection of a single good tenement has the power to change, gradually
but surely, the character of a whole bad block. ..."
4. How to Make an Index by Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1902)
"There is a particularly bad block of references filling half a page under Lord.
" Lord, High Chancellor, 7.6 ; 's Prayer vital to a nation, 7.22 ; Mayor and ..."
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