Slab

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), that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting
  • Slab pull, 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

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 universe

Science and technology

• Slab (geometry), the volume between two parallel planes
• Stupendously large black hole, a hypothetical region of spacetime

Technology

• Slab (unit), 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

Organisations

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

Other uses

• Slab, unseparated ribs in a culinary context
• Slab of beer, a flat package containing a large number of cans of beer
• 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
• "S.L.A.B. theory", a term coined by David Bordwell to refer to theories that use the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and/or Barthes
• "Slab", a disc golf distance driver by Infinite Discs
• Slab (car), a slang name to heavily customized and colorful cars associated with Texan rap culture

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with SLAB
• All pages with titles beginning with Slab
• All pages with titles containing slab