0 a piece of wood or plastic used by children to build things with
1 something that is necessary for making or developing another thing:
People and principles are the building blocks of all successful companies.
The experimentation has shown that even at the highest building block level, it is possible to achieve good results.
This ability is a remarkable pragmatic achievement that represents an important building block in their understanding of how to communicate successfully with others.
In order to substantiate such interpretations of the factors that shaped water policy, an important building block is still missing.
This meta-interpreter has benign computational properties, and can be used as a building block for meta-interpreters of other semantics.
Despite the obvious link with simulation, dreaming does not seem to have been specifically used as an engineering building block in a previous architecture.
Another building block for such planning operations in the brain may be the type of short-term memory in which the prefrontal cortex is involved.
An interesting design choice is in which building block do variables reside?
A tetramer featuring four identical sides constitutes a much better building block for the formation of a regular lattice than an asymmetric monomer.