Slice may refer to: *

Cutting Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for wikt:cut, cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the sca ...

Food and beverage

*A portion of bread, pizza, cake, meat, or other food item that is cut flat and thin: :* Sliced bread :* Pizza by the slice, a fast food dish :* Vanilla slice :* Fudge :*

Toffee Toffee is an English confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of . While being prepar ...

:* Barfi * Slice (drink), a line of fruit-flavored soft drinks *A serving or cooking utensil, such as a Fish slice

In Australia and New Zealand

*A category of sweet or savory dishes: :* Vanilla slice, a dessert cake similar to a brownie :* Zucchini slice, a savory dish similar to a quiche

In arts and entertainment

Music

* ''Slice'' (album), a Five for Fighting album, 2009 ** "Slice" (song), a 2009 song by Five for Fighting *''Slice'', a 1998 album by Arthur Loves Plastic * Slices (band) * ''Slice'' (EP), 2023 by O.

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Slice (TV channel) Slice is a Television in Canada, Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts programming targeting young adult women, including Television comedy, comedy, Reality television, reality, ...

, a Canadian TV channel formerly known as Life Network * Slice (2009 film), a Thai crime film * ''Slice'' (2018 film), an American horror comedy film * Slice (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe *Slice, a region in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' stories, see Discworld (world)#The Ramtops *Slice, in lieu of "chapter", in Norman Lindsay's children's book

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In mathematics, science, and technology

Computing

Time slice In computing, preemption is the act performed by an external scheduler — without assistance or cooperation from the task — of temporarily interrupting an executing task, with the intention of resuming it at a later time. This preemptive s ...

, the time during which a process runs * Time slice multiplexing, a form of processor scheduling * Slice (disk), a logical division or partition of a hard disk *

Array slicing In computer programming, array slicing is an operation that extracts a subset of elements from an array and packages them as another array, possibly in a different dimension from the original. Common examples of array slicing are extracting a ...

, an operation that extracts certain elements from an array *

Bit slicing Bit slicing is a technique for constructing a processor from modules of processors of smaller bit width, for the purpose of increasing the word length; in theory to make an arbitrary ''n''-bit central processing unit (CPU). Each of these c ...

, a technique for constructing a processor from modules of smaller bit width *Specification Language for Ice,

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Mathematics

*Slice category, in category theory, a special case of a

comma category In mathematics, a comma category (a special case being a slice category) is a construction in category theory. It provides another way of looking at morphisms: instead of simply relating objects of a Category (mathematics), category to one another ...

* Slice genus, in knot theory * Slice knot, in knot theory * Slice sampling, a Monte Carlo sampling method *

Projection-slice theorem In mathematics, the projection-slice theorem, central slice theorem or Fourier slice theorem in two dimensions states that the results of the following two calculations are equal: * Take a two-dimensional function ''f''(r), Projection (mathematic ...

, a theorem about Fourier transforms * Bers slice in theory of Kleinian groups

Other uses in science and technology

* Slice preparation or brain slice, an ''in vitro'' technique for neurophysiology * Slice (electronics), a wafer of semiconductor material used in circuits

Sports

Backspin In sports, backspin or underspin refers to the reverse rotation of a ball, in relation to the ball's trajectory, that is imparted on the ball by a slice or chop shot. Backspin generates an upward force that lifts the ball (see Magnus effect). W ...

, in racquet sports or golf; also known as "slice" in racquet sports * Golf slice, or "slice", a golf shot in which the ball curves sideways in flight due to sidespin, usually unintentionally, as a result of a mishit * Kimbo Slice (1974–2016), a mixed-martial arts fighter * Barry "Slice" Rohrssen (1960–), an American basketball coach

Business and other uses

* Slice, Inc., a company that designs and produces box cutters and other cutting tools * Rakuten Slice, a company that measures digital commerce and provides online shopping services * Slice (app), an online food ordering platform for independent pizzerias