Slab

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Slab can refer to:

• usually square or rectangular concrete paver used to construct pavements, patios, paths, etc: see Paver (flooring) and flagstone
• 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 flat horizontal plate normally used as a floor or foundation: see Slab-on-grade foundations, Hollow core slab and tilt slab
• 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
• SLAB is the "Sound and Literary Arts Book" from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, which takes its name considering the Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, Barthes allusion as well as "rock face" and "sitting in a corner to watch the colours" from Terry Pratchett
• SLAB is the NASDAQ stock exchange symbol for the semiconductor company Silicon_Laboratories