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 Sliced bread is a loaf of bread, sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was ...

Pizza by the slice Pizza by the slice is pizza sold in individual portions as a fast food by a restaurant or Street food, street vendor. Some restaurants and pizza stands only sell pizza by the slice, while others sell both slices and whole pizzas. The jumbo slice ...

, a fast food dish :* Vanilla slice :*

Fudge ''Fudge'' is a generic role-playing game system for use in freeform role-playing games. The name "''FUDGE''" was once an acronym for ''Freeform Universal Donated'' (later, ''Do-it-yourself'') ''Gaming Engine'' and, though the acronym has since b ...

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 A fish slice is a kitchen utensil with a wide, flat blade with holes in it, used for lifting and turning food while cooking. It may be called a slotted spatula or a turner or flipper. The utensil was originally designed as a serving piece rather ...

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) Slice is a fictional Character (arts), character from the ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' toyline, comic books and animated series. He is affiliated with Cobra Command, Cobra as a ninja swordsman, and debuted in 1992. Profile Slice is believ ...

, 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

The Magic Pudding ''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The ...

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 In computing, multitasking is the concurrent execution of multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time. New tasks can interrupt already started ones before they finish, instead of waiting for them to end. As a result ...

, a form of processor scheduling *

Slice (disk) Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. These regions are called partitions. It is typically the first step of preparing a newly installed 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,

Internet Communications Engine The Internet Communications Engine, or Ice, is an open-source RPC framework developed by ZeroC. It provides SDKs for C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Ruby and Swift, and can run on various operating systems, incl ...

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 mathematics, the slice genus of a smooth knot ''K'' in ''S''3 (sometimes called its Murasugi genus or 4-ball genus) is the least integer g such that ''K'' is the boundary of a connected, orientable 2-manifold ''S'' of genus ''g'' properly embedd ...

, in knot theory *

Slice knot A slice knot is a knot (mathematics), mathematical knot in 3-dimensional space that bounds an embedded disk in 4-dimensional space. Definition A knot K \subset S^3 is said to be a topologically slice knot or a smoothly slice knot, if it is the ...

, in knot theory *

Slice sampling Slice sampling is a type of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for pseudo-random number sampling, i.e. for drawing random samples from a statistical distribution. The method is based on the observation that to sample a random variable one can sampl ...

, 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 the mathematical theory of Kleinian groups, Bers slices and Maskit slices, named after Lipman Bers and Bernard Maskit, are certain slices through the moduli space of Kleinian groups. Bers slices For a quasi-Fuchsian group, the limit set is ...

in theory of Kleinian groups

Other uses in science and technology

Slice preparation The slice preparation or brain slice is a laboratory technique in electrophysiology that allows the study of neurons from various brain regions in isolation from the rest of the brain, in an ex-vivo condition. Brain tissue is initially sliced via ...

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 Kevin Ferguson (February 8, 1974 – June 6, 2016), better known as Kimbo Slice, was a Bahamian-American mixed martial artist, professional boxer, and actor. Originally a bare-knuckle boxer, he became noted for his role in mutual combat stre ...

(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 is a Japanese technology conglomerate based in Tokyo, founded by Hiroshi Mikitani in 1997. Centered around the online retail marketplace Rakuten Ichiba, its businesses include financial services utilizing Fintech, digital content and communi ...

Slice, a company that measures digital commerce and provides online shopping services *

Slice (app) Slice is an online food ordering platform for independent pizzerias. It allows pizzeria owners to offer their products to their customers using a mobile-optimized website and their customers can place orders through the Slice app and social med ...

, an online food ordering platform for independent pizzerias