building block

building block

n.

1. A block used as a building material, especially a cinder block.

2. A small wooden or plastic cube used as a building toy.

3. A basic element or part of something: Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins.

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building block

n

1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a block of stone or other material, larger than a brick, used in building

2. (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) a component that fits with others to form a whole standardized software building blocks

3. another name for block (the child's toy)

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	building block - a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids" unit thing - a separate and self-contained entity chemical chain, chain - (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) couple - (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines part, piece - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" unit cell - the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal chemical group, radical, group - (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule molecule - (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound
	2.	building block - a block of material used in construction work ashlar - a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes breeze block, cinder block, clinker block - a light concrete building block made with cinder aggregate; "cinder blocks are called breeze blocks in Britain" headstone, keystone, key - the central building block at the top of an arch or vault voussoir - wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault building material - material used for constructing buildings

Translations

building block n → componente m