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Noun
block model (plural block models)
- (shipbuilding) A scale model of a ship to be built, showing the vessel's water line.
1827, "Naval Architecture", Mechanics Magazine, volume 6, page 35:...the young shipwright is next desired to prepare a block model to the timbers, which, if correctly proportioned, will displace water equal to the weight of the vessel...
- (shipbuilding) A simplified model of a ship with flat sides.
1880, A.C. Kirk, “On a Method of Analyzing the Form of Ships”, in Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, volume 21, page 100:To show more clearly the relation of the block model to that of the actual ship, I have selected No. 4 in the Table...
1890, Henry West, “Inaugural Address”, in Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, volume 11, page 15:No attempt in this direction has, as yet, met with the general favour which Dr. Kirk's block model analysis has secured.
- (mathematics) A model of a network made by dividing it into blocks