Slack or Slacks may refer to:

Places

  • Slack, West Yorkshire, a village in Calderdale, England
  • Slack (river), a river in Pas-de-Calais department, France
  • The Slack, a village in County Durham, England
  • Slacks Creek, Queensland, Australia, a suburb of Logan City

Science and technology

  • Slack (project management), the time that a task in a project network can be delayed without delaying subsequent tasks or the overall project
  • Slack (software), a team communication tool that can be used for collaboration
  • Slack bus, an electrical power regulating system used to conduct load flow studies
  • Slack tub, used by a blacksmith to quench hot metal
  • Slack variable, a mathematical concept
  • File slack, a kind of computer internal fragmentation

People

  • Slack (surname), a list of people

Other uses

  • Slacks, another name for trousers
  • Slack Technologies, an American software company responsible for Slack software
  • Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani, a U.S. Supreme Court securities law case
  • Slack, the central belief of the parody religion Church of the SubGenius
  • Slack, the valley or trough between dunes
  • Slack, not having tension (physics)
  • Slack action, free movement due to loose couplings between railway cars
  • Slack coal, fragments of coal and coal dust; for example used in the Birchills Power Station
  • Resource slack, the level of availability of a resource to a business

See also

  • SLAC (disambiguation)
  • Slak (disambiguation)
  • Slacker, a person who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic
  • Slackness (Jamaican music), a crude or bawdy subgenre of dancehall music
  • Slackware, a Linux distribution