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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) 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, 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 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, 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 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

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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, 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


Mathematics

* Slab (geometry), the volume between two parallel planes


Organisations

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


Other uses

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


See also

* * * {{disambiguation, geo