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I'm now thinking that I would like to rename the current Variable and Coordinate objects to Block and IndexBlock. The name is borrowed from the pandas.Block object which they resemble. The main distinction from pandas is that our blocks have a bit more associated metadata (dims, attrs and encoding). Thoughts?

Once we rename variables to blocks (at least for the public API), we can safely use the name "variables" in place of "noncoordinates". DataStores should also probably switch to calling their contents "blocks" instead of "variables" (cc @akleeman).

 
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