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* In mathematics, '''block structure''' is a possible property of matrices -– see [[block matrix]].

* In computer science, a programming language has '''block structure''' if it features [[block (programming)|blocks]], which can be nested to any depth.

* In linguistics, '''block structure''' is a representation of sentence [[grammar]] now most commonly associated with the [[Backus–Naur Formform]]. The alternate [[context-free grammar]] approach instead is a mathematical notation for operating on sentence grammars.

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