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Slot may refer to:
- A narrow opening through which an object can pass, for example in a:
- Mail slot
- Slot machine, a type of casino game
- Vending machine slot
- Special passive mechanical devices used for returning rental videos.
- Slot, a space for a container on a ship, usually expressed as a 20 ft (6.1 m) or 40 ft (12 m) slot
- Slot (car racing), a slot in the track on which slot cars race in and are guided by
- Slot (ice hockey), the area on the hockey rink directly ahead of the goaltender between the faceoff circles on each side
- Orbital slot, allotted position for a satellite in a "crowded" orbit
- Slot, slang term for the chief copy editor on a newspaper
Technology
- Groove (engineering), a feature cut into a hard material to provide a location for another component
- Slot (computer architecture), the operation issue and data path machinery associated with a single execute pipeline in a CPU
- Edge connector socket ("slot"), any type of female electrical connector for use with printed circuit boards having matching edge connectors
- Slot 1, the physical and electrical specification for the connector used by some of Intel's microprocessors
- Slot 2, the physical and electrical specification for the connector used by some of Intel's microprocessors
- Slot A, the physical and electrical specification for the edge-connector used by early versions of AMD's Athlon processor
- Expansion slot, for expansion cards
- Leading edge slot, an aerodynamic device used on fixed wing aircraft
- Slot antenna, a directional antenna consisting of a slot in a piece of metal
- Kensington Security Slot, small hole found on almost all recent small or portable computer and electronics equipment used for attaching a lock
Other
- Dance slot, an imaginary narrow rectangle along which a follower moves back and forth with respect to the leader
- Landing slot, right allocated to an airline by an airport or government agency to schedule a landing or departure at a specific time
- Slot, the Danish and Dutch word for castle or fortified place, and can refer to several places, e.g.
- Egelund Slot, Kalø slot, Marienlyst Slot, Nordborg Slot, Søborg Slot
- Muiderslot, Slot Heemstede, Slot Teylingen, Slot Zuylen
- Dutch surname
- Arne Slot (born 1978), Dutch footballer
- Gerrie Slot (born 1954), Dutch cyclist
- Hanke Bruins Slot (born 1977), Dutch politician
- Margareta Slots (died 1669), Dutch-born mistress of Gustav II Adolf of Sweden
- The Slot, a gay hotel and sex club in the South of Market district of San Francisco, in the 1970s and 1980s
- "The Slot", a name for New Georgia Sound, used by the Tokyo Express to supply the Japanese garrison on Guadalcanal in World War II
- SLOT as abbreviation in automobile technology means "Self-Load/Offload Trailer" Slot acronym
- Slot (band), a Russian alternative/nu metal band
- Slots, common Internet-slang for the popular Warcraft III video game modification, Defense of the Ancients
- Slot canyon, a type of narrow canyon formed by the wear of water rushing through sandstone
- Slot time, the time it takes for an electronic pulse to travel the length between two nodes
- Abbreviation of St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band
- U.S. Army, an alpha-numeric position title or billet for personnel manning designation on a table of organization and equipment (TO&E) or a table of distribution and allowance (TDA)
See also
- All pages beginning with "Slot"
- All pages with titles containing "Slot"
- Hole (disambiguation)
- Slat (disambiguation)
- Slet
- Slit (disambiguation)
- Slut (disambiguation)