contiguous block

collocation in English

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contiguous
adjective
uk
/kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/us
/kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/
next to or touching another, usually ...
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block
noun
uk
/blɒk/us
/blɑːk/
mainly US
the distance along a street from where one road crosses it to the place where the next road crosses it, or one part of a street like this, especially in a town ...
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(Definition ofcontiguousandblockfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is, the copied structure is put on acontiguousblockin memory and sorted into a normal form.
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It recognises the fact that geological work, whether seismic or drilling, conducted within a block may yield information of great commercial value in respect to acontiguousblock.
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From thiscontiguousblockof territory, kings split off certain pieces to make of them donations to both ecclesiastical and secular lordships.
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Areas codes are grouped by provider with no singlecontiguousblockof codes for a single provider.
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To do this define acontiguousblockderived data type.
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This representation aligns all the overhead columns, so the overhead appears as acontiguousblock, as does the payload.
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The rest of the file is not necessarily loaded in acontiguousblock, but in different sections.
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Suppose that we have "n" books of equal width on a shelf (the real line), arranged in a singlecontiguousblock.
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The partners eventually hope to conserve acontiguousblockof more than, safeguarding the river and its special habitats and providing opportunities for public boating, hunting, fishing and wildlife observation.
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A vector can be distributed cyclicly, by contiguous blocks, or allocated to a single processor.
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An even more constrained version that is easier to solve is that the shape is orthogonally convex: having a singlecontiguousblockof squares in each row and column.
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To reduce the seek time and rotational latency, data are transferred to and from disks in large contiguous blocks.
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Disk blocks are assigned in "clusters" (originally 3 contiguous blocks but later increased with larger disk sizes).
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Up to four channels may be bonded in either one or two contiguous blocks.
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The sections were segregated, their members forced to live together in contiguous blocks of rooms.
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Building in contiguous blocks in elongated layout, the narrow frontage is one of the characteristics of tong-lau.
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Early data file-systems, or disc operating systems used to reserve contiguous blocks on the disc drive for data files.
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They were usually built in contiguous blocks and range from three to five storeys in height with verandahs or balconies facing the street.
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