Slab or SLAB may refer to:

Physical materials

  • Concrete slab, a flat concrete plate used in construction
  • Stone slab, a flat stone used in construction
  • Slab (casting), a length of metal
  • Slab (geology), that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting
  • Slab pull, the tectonic plate force due to subduction
  • Slab suction, one of the major plate tectonic driving forces
  • Slab window, a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate
  • Slab (fossil) and counter slab, the two counterparts of a fossil impression
  • Slab hut, a kind of dwelling made from slabs of split or sawn timber

Places

  • Slab Point, a rocky point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

United States

  • Slab, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia
  • Slab City, California, a locality in the Colorado Desert
  • Slab City, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin
  • Slab Fork, a tributary of the Guyandotte River in southern West Virginia

People and characters

  • Thomas Murphy (Irish republican) (born 1946), nicknamed "Slab"

Fictional characters

  • Slab (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
  • Slab, a character in The Ripping Friends
  • Slab, a character in "Mr. Young"

Media and entertainment

  • SLAB!, 1980s industrial music group
  • "The Slab", a 1984 song by Hunters & Collectors off the album The Jaws of Life
  • The Slab, a 2004 UK poetry anthology
  • The Slab or Slabside Penitentiary, a metahuman prison in the DC Comics universe

Science and technology

  • Slab (geometry), the volume between two parallel planes
  • Stupendously large black hole, a hypothetical region of spacetime

Technology

  • Slab (unit), a 12-bit unit of computer memory on the NCR 315
  • Slab allocation, a computer memory management mechanism
  • Bar (form), a mobile phone form factor also known as a slab
  • Slab method, a ray-box intersection algorithm
  • Slab serif, a kind of typeface
  • Slab construction, a building method

Organisations

  • Scottish Legal Aid Board
  • Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ symbol)

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Other uses

  • Slab, unseparated ribs in a culinary context
  • Slab of beer, a flat package containing a large number of cans of beer
  • Coin slab, a sealed transparent plastic coin holder
  • Slab of Bacon, a traveling trophy in American college football rivalry games
  • Slab climbing, a type of rock climbing on a surface at an angle less steep than vertical
  • Student loan asset-backed security, an asset-backed security
  • "S.L.A.B. theory", a term coined by David Bordwell to refer to theories that use the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and/or Barthes
  • "Slab", a disc golf distance driver by Infinite Discs
  • Slab (car), a slang name to heavily customized and colorful cars associated with Texan rap culture

See also

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