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 concrete, reinforced slabs, typically between 100 and 500 mm thick, are most often used to ...

, a flat concrete plate used in construction * Stone slab, 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), that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting **

Slab pull force Slab pull is a geophysical mechanism whereby the cooling and subsequent densifying of a subducting tectonic plate produces a downward force along the rest of the plate. In 1975 Forsyth and Uyeda used the inverse theory method to show that, of the m ...

, 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 * Slab of

beer Beer is one of the oldest and the most widely consumed type of alcoholic drink in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cer ...

, 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 state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers cla ...

, an unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia *

Slab City, California Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community consisting largely of snowbirds in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County, California. It took its name from concrete sl ...

, 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

Media and entertainment

Slab (comics) The Nasty Boys are a group of supervillain mutants appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. This group exists in Marvel's shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe. These characters are the personal strike force of X-M ...

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

The Slab ''The Slab'' is a poetry anthology published in 2004 in the United Kingdom by Muesli Jellyfish. The book features poets of varying notability. Authors published in this book include Dan Fante, Geoff Hattersley Geoffrey, Geoffroy, Geoff, etc., m ...

'', a 2004 UK poetry anthology * Slab, a character in '' The Ripping Friends'' * Slab, a character in ''Doctor Who'' * SLAB!, 1980s industrial music group * ''The Slab'', or Slabside Penitentiary, a metahuman prison in the

DC Comics DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with their f ...

universe * Slab, a character in " Mr. Young"

Technology

* Slab (unit), a 12-bit unit of computer memory on the NCR 315 * Slab allocation, 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, usuall ...

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

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 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 or hyperplanes in higher dimensions. Set definition A slab can also be defined as a set of points: \, where n is the normal vector ...

, the volume between two parallel planes

Organisations

Scottish Legal Aid Board The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) is an 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, taking over functions p ...

* Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ symbol)

Other uses

Slab of Bacon 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 i ...

, a traveling trophy in American college football rivalry games * Thomas Murphy (Irish republican) (born 1946), nicknamed "Slab" * Student loan asset-backed security, an

asset-backed security An asset-backed security (ABS) is a 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 small and illiquid asse ...

* "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 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 founded ...

Stupendously large black hole A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun (). Black holes are a class of astronomical obj ...

(SLAB), a hypothetical region of spacetime {{disambiguation, geo