Slab or SLAB may refer to:

Physical materials

Concrete slab A concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings, consisting of a flat, horizontal surface made of cast concrete. Steel- reinforced slabs, typically between 100 and 500 mm thick, are most often used to construct floors and ...

, a flat concrete plate used in construction *

Stone slab A stone slab is a big stone, flat and relatively thin, often of rectangular or almost rectangular form. They are generally used for paving floors, for covering walls or as headstones. In dolmens Most dolmen constructions were built using stone ...

, a flat stone used in construction *

Slab (casting) Semi-finished casting products are intermediate castings produced in a steel mill that need further processing before being finished goods. There are four types: ''ingots'', ''blooms'', ''billets'', and ''slabs''. Ingot Ingots are large rough ...

, a length of metal *

Slab (geology) In geology, the slab (variously called subducting, downgoing or oceanic lithosphere slab) is a significant constituent of subduction zones. It is the part of the subducting plate which bends downward and descends into the mantle in a converg ...

, that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting ** Slab pull force, the tectonic plate force due to subduction **

Slab suction Slab suction is one of the four main forces that drive plate tectonics Plate tectonics (, ) is the scientific theory that the Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion ...

, one of the major plate tectonic driving forces **

Slab window In geology, a slab window is a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate when a mid-ocean ridge meets with a subduction zone and plate divergence at the ridge and convergence at the subduction zone continue, causing the ridge to be subducted ...

, a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate **

Slab (fossil) A compression fossil is a fossil preserved in sedimentary rock that has undergone physical compression. While it is uncommon to find animals preserved as good compression fossils, it is very common to find plants preserved this way. The reason fo ...

and counter slab, the two counterparts of a fossil impression *

Slab hut A slab hut is a kind of dwelling or shed made from slabs of split or sawn timber. It was a common form of construction used by settlers in Australia and New Zealand during their nations' colonial periods. Huts, humpies and hovels The Australia ...

, a kind of dwelling made from slabs of split or sawn timber * Slab of

beer Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grain—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. The grain is mashed to convert starch in the ...

, a flat package containing a large number of cans of beer

Places

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

United States

Slab, West Virginia Slab is an unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The Un ...

, 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 The Slab Fork is a tributary of the Guyandotte River, long, in southern West Virginia in the United States. Via the Guyandotte and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of in a mainly rural area ...

, a tributary of the Guyandotte River in southern West Virginia

People and characters

Thomas Murphy (Irish republican) Thomas Murphy (: born 26 August 1949), also known as Slab, is an Irish republican, believed to be a former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. His farm, in Ballybinaby, Hackballscross, straddles County Armagh and County Lo ...

(born 1946), nicknamed "Slab"

Fictional characters

Slab (comics) S'Byll S'Byll (sometimes spelled S'byll) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. S'Byll is a Skrull that was raised on the planet Satriani. She was responsible for curing Super-Skrull of his disease. Si ...

, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe * Slab, a character in ''

The Ripping Friends ''The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men!'' (also known as ''The Ripping Friends'') is an animated television series created by John Kricfalusi, creator of ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' on Nickelodeon. The series aired for one season on Fox ...

'' * Slab, a character in "

Mr. Young ''Mr. Young'' is a Canadian television series that premiered on March 1, 2011, on YTV. The series was filmed in Burnaby, British Columbia. The series was created by Dan Signer (who also worked on Disney Channel series such as ''The Suite Life on ...

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 DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book seri ...

universe

Technology

Slab (unit) The NCR 315 Data Processing System, released in January 1962 by NCR Voyix, NCR, is a second-generation computer, second-generation computer. All printed circuit boards use resistor–transistor logic (RTL) to create the various logic elements. I ...

, a 12-bit unit of computer memory on the NCR 315 *

Slab allocation Slab allocation is a memory management mechanism intended for the efficient memory allocation of objects. In comparison with earlier mechanisms, it reduces fragmentation caused by allocations and deallocations. This technique is used for retai ...

, a computer memory management mechanism *

Bar (form) The form factor of a mobile phone is its size, shape, and style, as well as the layout and position of its major components. With one non-movable section Bar A bar (also known as a slab, block, candybar) phone takes the shape of a cuboid, usu ...

, a mobile phone form factor also known as a slab *

Slab method In computer graphics, the slab method is an algorithm used to solve the ray-box intersection problem in case of an axis-aligned bounding box (AABB), i.e. to determine the intersection points between a ray and the box. Due to its efficient nature, ...

, a ray-box intersection algorithm *

Slab serif In typography, a slab serif (also called ''mechanistic'', ''square serif'', ''antique'' or ''Egyptian'') typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular ( Rockwell), ...

, a kind of typeface *

Slab construction A large-panel-system building is a building constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs. Such buildings are often found in housing developments. Although large-panel-system buildings are often considered to be typical of Eastern Bloc co ...

, a building method

Mathematics

Slab (geometry) In geometry, a slab is a region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions. Set definition A slab can also be defined as ...

, the volume between two parallel planes

Organisations

Scottish Legal Aid Board The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) is an Scottish public bodies, executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, responsible for managing legal aid. It was established in April 1987, under the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986, ...

Silicon Laboratories Silicon Laboratories, Inc., commonly referred to as Silicon Labs, is a fabless global technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, other silicon devices and software, which it sells to electronics design engineers and manufact ...

(NASDAQ symbol)

Other uses

* Slab, a term used to refer to unseparated ribs in a culinary context *

Coin slab A coin slab is a type of holder for a coin. Slabbed coins are typically from one of the coin grading companies. The practice of sending coins to third-party grading companies and then "slabbing" them began in 1986. When a grading company grades ...

, a sealed transparent plastic coin holder * Slab of Bacon, a traveling trophy in American college football rivalry games *

Slab climbing In rock climbing a slab climb (or friction climb) is a type of climbing route where the rock face is 'off-angle' and not fully vertical. While the softer angle enables climbers to place more of their body weight on their feet, slab climbs maintain ...

, a type of rock climbing on a surface at an angle less steep than vertical * Student loan asset-backed security, an

asset-backed security An asset-backed security (ABS) is a Security (finance), security whose income payments, and hence value, are derived from and collateralized (or "backed") by a specified pool of underlying assets. The pool of assets is typically a group of sma ...

* "S.L.A.B. theory", a term coined by

David Bordwell David Jay Bordwell (; July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian. After receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1973, he wrote more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including ''Na ...

to refer to theories that use the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and/or Barthes * "Slab", a disc golf distance driver by

Infinite Discs Infinite Discs is an American disc golf equipment retail company based in Logan, Utah. The company also maintains a disc golf scorekeeping app, a course directory, a round tracking website, and a line of discs. History The company was found ...

* Stupendously large black hole (SLAB), a hypothetical region of spacetime * Slab (car), a slang name to heavily customized and colorful cars associated with Texan rap culture