superblock.

1. An urban block substantially larger than a conventional block, often organizing multiple buildings or internal pedestrian spaces within major street boundaries.

2. A filesystem metadata structure that describes basic properties and organization of that filesystem.

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Words that belong together

• an urban superblock
• a residential superblock

On the page

The residential superblock concealed its gardens from the arterial roads.

Crossing the urban superblock took longer than the simple map implied.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular superblock; plural superblocks. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.