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A block of shares

ə blɑk əv ʃɛrz
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. A block of shares
    (Stock Exchange) a large number of shares in a stock company, sold in a lump.
Usage in the news

The method includes sharing a master key with the sender and receiver, splitting the input data into blocks and sub-blocks, and utilizing a set of keys and a master key to derive a page key. mactech.com

Tsingtao Brewery Co. (600600), China's second-largest brewer by market share, reported the resignation of its chairman less than two weeks after an investor sold a block of shares 7 percent below market price. businessweek.com

A 7 percent share of the Sacramento Kings is about to head for the auction block. sacbee.com

Shares of Facebook jumped as much as 11.2 percent on Wednesday, as investors breathed a sigh of relief that expiring trading restrictions on a huge block of shares did not trigger an immediate wave of insider selling. contracostatimes.com

Bangladesh blocked access to the video-sharing site YouTube after it hosted a recording of a tense meeting between the prime minister and army officials following a bloody mutiny by border guards, officials said Monday. cbsnews.com

MASON CITY, IA- There is a common link all those murders share, they've taken place within blocks of the downtown area. kimt.com

Share Valparaiso Police and Porter County SWAT Team are at the scene of a standoff in the 1000 block of Elmhurst on the west side of Valparaiso . akeradio.com

Usage in scientific papers

The total number of registers and shared memory required by a thread dictates how many blocks of threads can be run concurrently on the GPU.
A GPU based real-time software correlation system for the Murchison Widefield Array prototype

The occupancy is a discontinuous function of number of registers used, the amount of shared memory used and the number of threads in a thread block.
A GPU based real-time software correlation system for the Murchison Widefield Array prototype

Columns 4 and 5 show the number of registers used per thread and the total amount of shared memory (bytes) used in a thread block.
A GPU based real-time software correlation system for the Murchison Widefield Array prototype

Indeed the high-throughput nature of the approach suggests a massive sharing of data. It also implies that the careful design of TMA blocks to test a narrow hypothesis is seldom conducted. The large volume of data issue has been addressed through computer-driven data management.
Mass data exploration in oncology: An information synthesis approach

Thus the blocks of the partition Π may be regarded as the sets of points which share a common value under the map ϕ.
Recent progress in coalescent theory

Usage in literature

In the second case, the investor in a block of shares does not withhold from the community what the community needs. "Liberalism and the Social Problem" by Winston Spencer Churchill

I should be prepared to buy a block of ten shares. "A Captain in the Ranks" by George Cary Eggleston

I've got a block of a hundred shares myself, which I bought eighteen months ago for a song. "Mark Mason's Victory" by Horatio Alger

It is a block of four hundred shares, at two hundred and sixty a share. "Mark Mason's Victory" by Horatio Alger