Slat, slats, or SLAT may refer to:

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Leading-edge slat A slat is an aerodynamic surface on the leading edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. When retracted, the slat lies flush with the rest of the wing. A slat is deployed by sliding forward, opening a slot between the wing and the slat. Air from ...

, an aerodynamic surface on the leading edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft *

Lath A lath or slat is a thin, narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles, on lath and plaster walls and ceilings to hold plaster, and in lattice and trellis work. ''Lath'' has expanded to mean any type of backing m ...

, a narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles * Vertical or horizontal pieces of a

window blind A window blind is a type of window covering. There are many different kinds of window blinds which use a variety of control systems. A typical window blind is made up of several long horizontal or vertical slats of various types of hard mate ...

Arts and entertainment

* A character in the American comic strip '' Abbie an' Slats'' * Slats Grobnik, a character created by American newspaper columnist

Mike Royko Michael Royko Jr. (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Over his 42-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the '' Chicago Daily News'', the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', an ...

* Slats (1919–1936), a

Leo the Lion Leo the Lion may refer to: Film and television * Leo the Lion (MGM), the mascot of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer * ''Leo the Lion'' (2005 film), an Italian animated film * ''Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle'', a 1994 Japanese anima ...

mascot of MGM

People

* Slats Jordan (1878–1953), American baseball player *

Slats Gill Amory Tingle "Slats" Gill (May 1, 1901 – April 5, 1966) was an American college basketball coach, the head coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis for 36 seasons. As a player, Gill was twice named to the All-Pacific Coast Conference bask ...

(1901–1966), American basketball and baseball head coach *

Glenn Hardin Glenn Foster "Slats" Hardin (July 1, 1910 – March 6, 1975) was an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Derma, Mississippi, Glenn Hardin was the world's dominant 400 m hurdler in the 1930s and was equ ...

(1910–1975), or Slats, American hurdler, 1936 Olympic gold medalist * Slats Long (1906–1964), American jazz clarinetist *

Max Zaslofsky Max "Slats" Zaslofsky (December 7, 1925 – October 15, 1985) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) where he was selected to th ...

(1925–1985), or Slats, American basketball player *

Glen Sather Glen Cameron Sather (born September 2, 1943) is a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and executive. He is the current senior advisor and alternate governor of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the Rangers' general m ...

(born 1943), or Slats, Canadian ice hockey player *

Michael Slater Michael Jonathon Slater (born 21 February 1970) is an Australian former professional cricketer and former television presenter. He played in 74 Test matches and 42 One Day Internationals for the Australia national cricket team. He was a part ...

(born 1970), or Slats, Australian cricketer *

Boyan Slat Boyan Slat (born 27 July 1994) is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur. A former aerospace engineering student, he is the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. Initial interest in plastic pollution In 2011, Slat went scuba diving in Greece and found that the ...

(born 1994), Dutch inventor and entrepreneur

Science and technology

AQM-127 SLAT The AQM-127 Supersonic Low-Altitude Target (SLAT) was a target drone developed during the 1980s by Martin Marietta for use by the United States Navy. Derived from Martin Marietta's work on the cancelled ASALM missile, SLAT proved to have severe di ...

(Supersonic Low-Altitude Target), a United States Navy target drone * ''Systeme de Lutte Anti-Torpille'', a naval anti-torpedo system, on

FREMM multipurpose frigate The European multi-purpose frigate or FREMM (; ) is a Franco-Italian family of warships designed by Naval Group and Fincantieri. This surface combatant is known in France as the ''Aquitaine'' class (17 units planned, of which 9 were later cance ...

Second Level Address Translation Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), also known as nested paging, is a hardware-assisted virtualization technology which makes it possible to avoid the overhead associated with software-managed shadow page tables. AMD has supported SLAT throug ...

, a computer technology *

Software Liberty Association of Taiwan Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital computers in the mid-20th cen ...

, a member of the

Free Standards Group The Free Standards Group was an industry non-profit consortium chartered to primarily specify and drive the adoption of open source standards, founded on May 8, 2000. All standards developed by the Free Standards Group (FSG) were released under op ...

Super Low Altitude Test Satellite Super Low Altitude Test Satellite (SLATS) or Tsubame was a JAXA satellite intended to demonstrate operations in very low Earth orbit (VLEO, below 200 km), using ion engines to counteract aerodynamic drag from the Earth's atmosphere which ...

, a Japanese satellite

Other uses

Slat, Kentucky Slat is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It bor ...

, United States, an unincorporated community * A rarely used alternate name for a slash (/)

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