Slab
Slab can refer to:
- slab (Southern United States slang), Heavily modified car.
- slab (computer science), a unit of storage unique to the NCR 315
- kernel slab, a contiguous piece of computer memory: see slab allocation
- in architecture and construction, a type of foundation; see Slab-on-grade foundations
- a large rectangular piece of metal (dimensions: 1.25m wide, 230mm thick, 12m long), usually used in metal-working as a semi-finished product for further production into sheet metal
- a less-than-vertical rock face or surface — used (for example) in rock-climbing
- a character on The Ripping Friends
- full-size luxury pre-1980 GM vehicles, primarily Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac
- in geometry, the area between two parallel hyperplanes
- in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, a troll narcotic — a street-name for ammonium chloride mixed with radium — which causes the user to "sit in a corner to watch the colours"
- in Australian slang, a carton or 24-pack of beer
- SLAB, an Australian surfwear company
- in film theory, SLAB refers to the post-structuralist approach to film theory. The name "SLAB" comes from the last names of Ferdinand de Saussure (linguist), Jaques Lacan (psychoanalyst), Louis Althusser (structural Marxist) and Roland Barthes (cultural theorist)
- in geology, slab refers to a subducting tectonic plate
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