meshblock
n.— «Your statement above is talking about linking individual “census profiles” to voting records. That certainly doesn’t happen now. In fact until the most recent census the original documents were all destroyed, leaving only the summary data down to the meshblock level.» —“Re: Building Better Nations 2.10″ by R.G. ‘Stumpy’ Marsh Usenet: nz.politics Sept. 5, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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