"block device" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: character device"
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          "ref": "2016, Joel Reardon, Secure Data Deletion, Springer, page 137",
          "text": "The network block device is a block device offered by Linux. It behaves as a normal block device that can be formatted with any block-based file system and mounted for use.",
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        "An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks."
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        "(computing, Unix) An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks."
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