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- noun The smallest part of a town enclosed by streets.
- noun The distance from one street to the next.
- noun A distance comparable to the distance between streets in a city, in the approximate range of 0.2–0.4 km.
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- noun a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
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