[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

blocked records
     
         several records written as a contiguous block on
        magnetic tape so that they may be accessed in a single i/o
        operation.  blocking increases the amount of data that may be
        stored on a tape because there are fewer inter-block gaps.
        it requires that the tape drive or processor have a
        sufficiently large buffer to store the whole block.
     
        1995-04-13
     
     
see also:
record magnetic tape inter-block gap 

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