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Etymology

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From de- +‎ block.

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Verb

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deblock (third-person singular simple present deblocks, present participle deblocking, simple past and past participle deblocked)

  1. (transitive) To unblock; remove a blockage from.
  2. (transitive, computing) To separate the logical records that have been combined into a physical block for storage.
  3. (transitive, computing) To process (digital video) so as to remove block-shaped artifacts of encoding.

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