Slack

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Slack may refer to:

Places

• Slack, West Yorkshire, a village in Calderdale, England
• Slack River, in Pas-de-Calais, France
• Slacks Creek, Queensland, a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia

Science and technology

• Slack (software), a team communication tool
• Slack variable, a mathematical concept
• Slack bus, in load flow studies
• File slack, a kind of computer internal fragmentation
• Slack, a concept and measurable quantity in an asynchronous circuit

People

• Charlie Slack, American basketball player
• Shanon Slack (born 1984), American mixed martial artist

Other uses

• Slack (project management), the amount of time that a task in a project network can be delayed without causing
• Slack, the central belief of the Church of the SubGenius
• Slack coal, fragments of coal and coal dust; for example used in the Birchills Power Station
• Slackness or slack, lyrics of a crude or bawdy nature in dancehall music
• Trousers or slacks
• Slack, the valley or trough between dunes
• Slack action, between railway car couplings

See also

• Slack tub, used by a blacksmith to quench hot metal
• Slacks (disambiguation)
• Slacker, a person who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic
• Slackware, a Linux distribution