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Slack may refer to:
People
- Charlie Slack, American basketball player
- George Slack (1874-1950), American politician
- Shanon Slack (born 1984), American mixed martial artist
Places
- Slack, West Yorkshire, a village in Calderdale, England
- The Slack, a river in Pas-de-Calais department, North France
- Slacks Creek, Queensland, a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia
Science and technology
- File slack, a kind of computer internal fragmentation
- Slack, a concept and measurable quantity in an asynchronous circuit
- Slack bus, an electrical power regulating system used to conduct load flow studies
- Slack (software), a team communication tool
- Slack Technologies, makers of Slack software
- Slack variable, a mathematical concept
- Slackware, a Linux distribution
Other uses
- Slack (project management), the time that a task in a project network can be delayed without delaying subsequent tasks or the overall project
- 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, free movement due to loose couplings between railway cars
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
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