datablock

English

Etymology

From data +‎ block.

Noun

datablock (plural datablocks)

1. A block of data.
   • 2011 June, John E. Herreño, Blender 2.5 Hotshot: Challenging and Fun Projects That Will Push Your Blender Skills to the Limit, Birmingham: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 166:

     [H]ow do we get the final assembly that constitutes the full object? That is done by allowing each type of datablock to reference some other types; for the simple object that we are considering, the datablock of Object type can reference one datablock of Mesh type, the Mesh datablock itself can reference multiple Material datablocks, and each Material datablock can further reference multiple Texture datablocks.

   • 2015, Steve Wheeler, Onyx Javelin (A Fury of Aces; 3), Sydney, N.S.W.: HarperVoyager, →ISBN, page 284:

     But I bet you that you don’t have those datablocks to decode that information, do you?

   • 2016 October 4, Joey Graceffa with Laura L. Sullivan, Children of Eden: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Keywords Press/Atria, →ISBN, page 73:

     When I pull out my datablocks and vids to study, I turn immediately to all of the things Lark and I talked about. I search for information on the Dominion, but there is precious little.