Slack or Slacks may refer to:

Places

* Slack, West Yorkshire, a village in Calderdale, England *

Slack (river) The Slack (, ) is a coastal river in the Pas-de-Calais department, in northern France. It rises at Hermelinghen on Mount Binôt, flows through Rinxent, Marquise, Pas-de-Calais, Marquise, Beuvrequen, Slack (village near Ambleteuse) and flows in ...

, 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) Slack is a Cloud computing, cloud-based team communication platform developed by Slack Technologies, which has been owned by Salesforce since 2020. Slack uses a freemium, freemium model. Slack is primarily offered as a business-to-business serv ...

, 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 Slack Technologies, LLC is an American software company founded in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, known for its proprietary communication platform Slack (software), Slack. Outside its headquarters in San Francisco, California, Slack also o ...

, 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 The Church of the SubGenius is a parody religion that satirizes better-known belief systems. It teaches a complex philosophy that focuses on J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, purportedly a salesman from the 1950s, who is revered as a prophet by the Church. SubGen ...

* Slack, the valley or trough between

dune A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, flat ...

s * Slack, not having

tension (physics) Tension is the pulling or stretching force transmitted axially along an object such as a string, rope, chain, rod, truss member, or other object, so as to stretch or pull apart the object. In terms of force, it is the opposite of ''compression ...

Slack action In railroading, slack action is the amount of free movement of one car before it transmits its motion to an adjoining coupled car. This free movement results from the fact that in railroad practice, cars are loosely coupled, and the coupling is o ...

, 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

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