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Look up slab in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slab or SLAB may refer to: Concrete slab, a flat concrete plate used in construction Stone slab, a flat
Slab
American alternative lifestyle community
Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community consisting largely of snowbirds in the Salton Trough
Slab_City,_California
Flat, horizontal concrete element of modern buildings
concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings, consisting of a flat, horizontal surface made of cast concrete. Steel-reinforced slabs, typically
Concrete_slab
Part of the motion of a tectonic plate caused by its subduction
Slab pull is a geophysical mechanism whereby the cooling and subsequent densifying of a subducting tectonic plate produces a downward force along the rest
Slab_pull
Force in plate tectonics
Slab suction is one of the four main forces that drive plate tectonics. It creates a force that pulls down plates as they are subducting and speeds up
Slab_suction
Memory management mechanism
Slab allocation is a memory management mechanism intended for the efficient memory allocation of objects. In comparison with earlier mechanisms, it reduces
Slab_allocation
Slang term for a heavily customized car
Slab (sometimes in all capital letters) is an acronym for "slow, loud, and bangin'" that describes a custom car, music and surrounding culture that's associated
Slab_(car)
Concrete flooring structural system
A waffle slab or two-way joist slab is a concrete slab made of reinforced concrete with concrete ribs running in two directions on its underside. The
Waffle_slab
Type of serif typeface
In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif, antique or Egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like
Slab_serif
Archaeological culture of ancient East Asians
The Slab Grave culture is an archaeological culture of Late Bronze Age (LBA) and Early Iron Age Mongolia. The Slab Grave culture formed one of the primary
Slab-grave_culture
Term for an area that formerly surrounded a sawmill in the US
Slab city is a derogatory term for an area which surrounded a sawmill in American frontier times. De-limbed timber was placed in the mill. The timber was
Slab_city
A waffle slab foundation, also called a ribbed slab foundation, is an above-ground type of foundation used to provide load-bearing capacity in expansive
Waffle_slab_foundation
Method of concrete construction
Lift slab construction (also called the Youtz-Slick Method) is a method of constructing concrete buildings by casting the floor or roof slab on top of
Lift_slab_construction
New Slab (Chinese: 新長型大廈) is a design of residential block of public housing estate in Hong Kong, and the successor to the Old Slab design. It is a modification
New_Slab
In geometry, a slab is a region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space
Slab_(geometry)
Rapid flow of a mass of snow down a slope
and trees. Avalanches occur in two general forms, or combinations thereof: slab avalanches made of tightly packed snow, triggered by a collapse of an underlying
Avalanche
American ice cream parlor chain
Marble Slab Creamery (Marble Slab) is an American chain of ice cream shops owned by FAT Brands. Its corporate offices are in Atlanta, Georgia. There are
Marble_Slab_Creamery
Tributary of Spring Creek in Pennsylvania
Slab Cabin Run is an 11.2-mile-long (18.0 km) tributary of Spring Creek in Centre County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Slab Cabin Run joins Spring
Slab_Cabin_Run
British band
SLAB! are an industrial music/alternative rock band initially active between the mid-1980s and early 1990s. They reformed in 2009. The band's first release
Slab!
Type of rock climbing route
Examples of slab climbing In rock climbing a slab climb (or friction climb) is a type of climbing route where the rock face is 'off-angle' and not fully
Slab_climbing
Type of concrete slab
A hollow core slab, also known as a voided slab, hollow core plank or simply a concrete plank is a precast slab of prestressed concrete typically used
Hollow-core_slab
Type of sealed coin holder
A coin slab is a type of holder for a coin. Slabbed coins are typically from coin grading companies. The practice of sending coins to third-party grading
Coin_slab
Subduction characterized by a low subduction angle
Flat slab subduction is characterized by a low subduction angle (<30 degrees to horizontal) beyond the seismogenic layer and a resumption of normal subduction
Flat_slab_subduction
Land route
technique restores support to concrete slabs by filing small voids that develop underneath the concrete slab at joints, cracks or the pavement edge.
Road
Portion of a tectonic plate that is being subducted
In geology, the slab (variously called subducting, downgoing or oceanic lithosphere slab) is a significant constituent of subduction zones. It is the part
Slab_(geology)
Intermediate casting type
being finished goods. There are four types: ingots, blooms, billets, and slabs. Ingots are large rough castings designed for storage and transportation
Semi-finished casting products
Semi-finished_casting_products
Play written by John Byrne
The Slab Boys Trilogy is a set of three plays by the Scottish playwright John Byrne. The trilogy was originally known as Paisley Patterns. The three plays
The_Slab_Boys_Trilogy
Dam on the American River watershed in California
Slab Creek Dam is a dam in the American River watershed of the central Sierra Nevada, within El Dorado County, California. The dam and reservoir impound
Slab_Creek_Dam
Flat, thin, and big stone
A stone slab is a big stone, flat and relatively thin, often of rectangular or almost rectangular form. They are generally used for paving floors, for
Stone_slab
Type of reinforced concrete slab
Voided biaxial slabs, sometimes called biaxial slabs or voided slabs, are a type of reinforced concrete slab which incorporates air-filled voids to reduce
Voided_biaxial_slab
Surname list
Slabber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jamie Slabber (born 1984), English footballer Wilbur Slabber (born 1980), Namibian cricketer
Slabber
painted slab stelas. A small number of Ancient Egyptian dignitaries or their wives had a slab stela. Some funerary stelas were in the form of slab steles
Slab_stela
Long and narrow depressions of the sea floor
marks the position at which the flexed, subducting slab begins to descend beneath another lithospheric slab. Trenches are generally parallel to and about 200 km
Oceanic_trench
American rapper (born 1981)
Paul Wall followed up The Po-Up Poet with his ninth studio album, titled SlabGod which contains the single "Swangin' In The Rain". On March 11, 2016, Wall
Paul_Wall
Unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States
Slab Fork is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States with a population of 202. Slab Fork is located along a stream
Slab_Fork,_West_Virginia
Type of gap in a subducted oceanic plate
geology, a slab window or slab tear is a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate due to localization of stress in the subducting slab (i.e., the subducted
Slab_window
Indian filmmaker (born 1997)
graduating from the University of Southern California, he co-founded the company SLAB Ventures in 2022, under which he launched a luxury lifestyle and beverage
Aryan_Khan
Kind of dwelling or shed made from slabs of split or sawn timber
A slab hut is a kind of dwelling or shed made from slabs of split or sawn timber. It was a common form of construction used by settlers in Australia and
Slab_hut
Ray-box intersection method
In computer graphics, the slab method is an algorithm used to solve the ray-box intersection problem in case of an axis-aligned bounding box (AABB), i
Slab_method
Roman distance slab created around 142 CE
The Bridgeness Slab is a Roman distance slab created around 142 CE marking a portion of the Antonine Wall built by the Second Legion. It is regarded as
Bridgeness_Slab
American rock band
Raging Slab is an American rock band that plays a blend of southern rock and boogie with influences from metal and punk. They released six albums between
Raging_Slab
Bayesian variable selection technique in statistics
Spike-and-slab regression is a type of Bayesian linear regression in which a particular hierarchical prior distribution for the regression coefficients
Spike-and-slab_regression
Irish republican (born 1949)
Murphy (Irish: Tomás Mac Murchaidh: born 26 August 1949), also known as Slab, is an Irish republican, believed to be a former Chief of Staff of the Provisional
Thomas Murphy (Irish republican)
Thomas_Murphy_(Irish_republican)
Scottish playwright and artist (1940–2023)
was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, artist and designer. He wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and the
John_Byrne_(playwright)
Process to level concrete by levelling its underlying foundation
concrete slabs, oftentimes using a movable pump that can access most slabs. Once the void under the slab is filled, the pressure builds under the slab, lifting
Concrete_leveling
Stone artefact from Western Brittany
The Saint-Bélec slab (Breton: Taol Sant-Beleg) is a stone artefact from western Brittany thought to be a map of an early Bronze Age principality. It was
Saint-Bélec_slab
1985 studio album by Severed Heads
City Slab Horror is the fifth studio album by the Australian experimental pop music group Severed Heads. First released in 1985 through Ink Records, it
City_Slab_Horror
The Nimrud Slab, also known as the Calah Orthostat Slab, is the top half of a "summary inscription" of the reign of Adad-nirari III (811 to 783 BC) discovered
Nimrud_Slab
Railway without a crushed stone bed
A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of sleepers and ballast is replaced
Ballastless_track
surfaces, or the counter slab may simply show a negative impression or mould of the fossil. Comparing slab and counter slab has led to the exposure of
Compression_fossil
Type of building foundation
capacity of the soil. Slab-on-grade or floating slab foundations are a structural engineering practice whereby the reinforced concrete slab that is to serve
Shallow_foundation
Process occurring in plate tectonics
In plate tectonics, slab detachment or slab break-off may occur during continent-continent or arc-continent collisions. When the continental margin of
Slab_detachment
River in West Virginia, United States
The Slab Fork is a tributary of the Guyandotte River, 15.1 miles (24.3 km) long, in southern West Virginia in the United States. Via the Guyandotte and
Slab_Fork
Unincorporated community in Wisconsin, United States
Slab City is an unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States, in the town of Hartland. It is located one mile south of Bonduel
Slab_City,_Wisconsin
Stream in West Virginia, U.S.
Slab Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Slab Creek was named for a nearby settler's house which was built of slabs. List of rivers
Slab_Creek
Bronze Age archaeological culture in eastern Mongolia
origin of the Slab-grave culture. The genetic profile of individuals belonging to this culture is virtually identical to the profile of Slab Grave culture
Ulaanzuukh_culture
Poetry anthology
The Slab is a poetry anthology published in 2004 in the United Kingdom by Muesli Jellyfish. The book features poets of varying notability. Authors published
The_Slab
Ancient oceanic plate that has mostly subducted under the North American plate
North American plate caused the slab to flatten, resulting in slab rollback. Another cause of flat slab subduction may be slab buoyancy, a characteristic influenced
Farallon_plate
Historic site in Queensland, Australia
Slab Hut Farm is a heritage-listed farm at 847 Mt Nebo Road, Enoggera Reservoir, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1890s to 1890s
Slab_Hut_Farm
1989 studio album by Raging Slab
Raging Slab is the major label debut of American hard rock band Raging Slab, released in 1989. The album contains the singles "Don't Dog Me" and "Bent
Raging_Slab_(album)
Geological process at tectonic plate boundaries
the negative buoyancy of the dense subducting lithosphere. The down-going slab sinks into the mantle largely under its own weight. Earthquakes are common
Subduction
United States historic place
The Independence Slab originally was a series of petroglyphs carved in an outcropping of native silicious Berea sandstone located in the city of Independence
Independence_Slab
Residential block design in Hong Kong public housing
Old Slab (Chinese: 舊長型) is a design of residential blocks used in Hong Kong public housing estates. The buildings of this type consist of one or more elongated
Old_Slab
Open-source typeface family
make the font thinner or thicker without affecting its metrics. Roboto Slab is a slab serif font based on Roboto. It was introduced in March 2013, as the
Roboto
Structural horizontal block that spans the space between two vertical supports
concrete and are also referred to as beams in beam-and-block slabs or as ribs in rib-and-block slabs. These prestressed concrete lintels and blocks can serve
Lintel
Any free-standing Christian cross made of stone – often richly decorated
be erected and replaced until modern times. In Pictish Scotland the cross-slab, a flat stone with a cross in relief or incised on an essentially rectangular
High_cross
Historic site in Queensland, Australia
Allan Slab Hut is a heritage-listed slab hut at Warrah Road, Duckinwilla, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1900. It is also
Allan_Slab_Hut
1962 second-generation computer
logic elements. It uses 12-bit slab memory structure using magnetic-core memory. The instructions can use a memory slab as either two 6-bit alphanumeric
NCR_315
Decorative detail in typography
classified into one of four subgroups: Old-style, Transitional, Didone, and Slab serif, in order of first emergence. Serifs originated from the first official
Serif
Slab-O-Concrete Productions was a British mail order distributor and publisher, founded by Peter Pavement, Dave Hanna, Emma Copsey and Chris Tappenden;
Slab-O-Concrete
Geologic zone in Argentina
Pampean flat-slab is the low angle subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath Northern Argentina. The Pampean flat-slab is one of three flat slabs in South
Pampean_flat-slab
Physical structure guiding light waves
optical waveguide is the dielectric slab waveguide, also called a planar waveguide. Owing to their simplicity, slab waveguides are often used as toy models
Waveguide_(optics)
Type of stochastic recurrent neural network
spike-and-slab RBM (ssRBM), which models continuous-valued inputs with binary latent variables. Similar to basic RBMs and its variants, a spike-and-slab RBM
Boltzmann_machine
Type of building and construction technique
Tilt-up, tilt-slab or tilt-wall is a type of building and a construction technique using concrete. Though it is a cost-effective technique with a shorter
Tilt_up
Slab serif typeface commissioned by the Mozilla Foundation
Zilla Slab is a free to use, open source slab serif font commissioned by the Mozilla Foundation as a part of their rebranding process from mid-2016 to
Zilla_Slab
Type of salt-cured pork
brown sugar, honey, or molasses. A side of unsliced bacon is known as "slab bacon". USDA regulations only recognise bacon as "cured" if it has been treated
Bacon
Type of wheel rim
(or simply 4s)) are custom extended wire-spoke wheel rims associated with slab car culture of Houston, Texas. These distinctive rims protrude several inches
Swangas
Prehistoric stone tool
archaeology, a grinding slab is a ground stone artifact generally used to grind plant materials into usable size, though some slabs were used to shape other
Grinding_slab
Neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface
Aptos Mono (a monospaced font), Aptos Serif (serif font), and Aptos Slab (Slab serif font), are available to Microsoft 365 subscribers via Microsoft's
Aptos_(typeface)
Ancient genetic lineage of modern humans
have high APS affinities. The people of the Ulaanzuukh (1450–1150 BCE) and Slab Grave (1100–300 BCE) cultures were closely associated with the Ancient Northeast
Ancient_Northeast_Asian
Generic flat stone usually used for paving
cut in regular rectangular or square shape and usually used for paving slabs or walkways, patios, flooring, fences and roofing. It may be used for memorials
Flagstone
Type of explosive material
off-white slab, block, or stick, superseded by PE7 and PE8 in MOD usage), SX2 (sheet explosive, superseded by SX4), PE7 (pure to off-white slab or block
Plastic_explosive
Serif typeface
Serifa is a slab serif typeface family created by Adrian Frutiger in 1967. The typeface is based on the Univers family. It was most prominently featured
Serifa
Device used to grip stones for lifting
pads that close astride the top of a slab, and are pulled tightly together by the weight of the slab itself. The slab lifter uses two safety devices. Safety
Lewis_(lifting_appliance)
Molds for cast
concrete in slab structures, building techniques for the temporary structures were derived again from masonry and carpentry. The traditional slab formwork
Formwork
Volcanic belt in South America
Trench. To the south, the CVZ is limited by the Pampean flat-slab segment or Norte Chico flat-slab segment, a region devoid of volcanism due to a lower subduction
Andean_Volcanic_Belt
Arching or compressive membrane action (CMA) in reinforced concrete slabs occurs as a result of the great difference between the tensile and compressive
Arching or compressive membrane action in reinforced concrete slabs
Arching_or_compressive_membrane_action_in_reinforced_concrete_slabs
Phone's size, shape and style
the layout and position of its major components. A bar (also known as a slab, block, candybar) phone takes the shape of a cuboid, usually with rounded
Form_factor_(mobile_phones)
Grave marker
A ledger stone or ledgerstone is an inscribed stone slab usually laid into the floor of a church to commemorate or mark the place of the burial of a deceased
Ledger_stone
Slab serif typeface
Clarendon is a slab serif typeface that was released in 1845 by Thorowgood and Co. (or Thorowgood and Besley) of London, a letter foundry often known as
Clarendon_(typeface)
Theory in plate tectonics
In geology, the slab gap hypothesis is one of the explanations put forward to explain several instances of crustal extension that occur inland near former
Slab_gap_hypothesis
Shapes of stećak tombstones, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dimitrije Sergejevski in 1952. The first group includes stećci in the form of a slab, a chest (or box), a chest with a pedestal, a gable and a gable with a pedestal
Stećak_forms
LED technology
SmartSlab is an LED technology invented in 1999 by Tom Barker. The SmartSlab technology uses a hexagonal pixel in a structural composite honeycomb, so
SmartSlab
Rat-shaped hole in a Chicago sidewalk
2024, attracting tourists to the site. City officials removed the sidewalk slab containing the hole several months later, and it is currently stored in City
Chicago_rat_hole
Historic site in New South Wales, Australia
Timber Slab Cottage is a heritage-listed residence at 44 Barden Street, Tempe, Inner West Council, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from
Timber_Slab_Cottage,_Tempe
Building constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs
large-panel-system building is a building constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs. Such buildings are often found in housing developments. Although large-panel-system
Large-panel-system_building
Medieval gravestone
50°50′00″N 0°32′56″W / 50.83333°N 0.54889°W / 50.83333; -0.54889 The Slayer's Slab is a title given to a medieval gravestone formerly in the graveyard of Lyminster
Slayer's_Slab
Candida Cartier Caslon Antique Catull Century Old Style Charis SIL Cholla Slab Clearface Cloister Concrete Roman Corona Courier Courier Prime Dante Deepdene
List_of_serif_typefaces
Family of problems in computational geometry
slabs, determine which slab contains a given point. Given a slab subdivided into regions by non-intersecting segments that completely cross the slab from
Point_location
Changes of rock due to pressure and heat near a subduction zone
low-temperature conditions a subducting slab encounters during its descent. The metamorphic conditions the slab passes through in this process generates
Subduction_zone_metamorphism
SLAB
SLAB
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Tamil
Beautiful Angel; A Stone Slab
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places such as Flagg in Derbyshire and Flags in Nottinghamshire, named from Old English flage or Old Norse flaga ‘slab’, or from Old Norse flag ‘turf’, ‘sod’.
SLAB
SLAB
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Patience
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Mist; Fog; Dew
Boy/Male
Australian, French, German, Italian, Latin, Slovenia
Dragon
Girl/Female
Celtic Welsh Arthurian Legend
Mythical daughter of Yspaddaden.
Girl/Female
Indian
Compassion, Sympathy, Pity
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a fertile valley, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + hope ‘valley’. Compare Greenslade.
Male
Arthurian
, king of castle Brandigant.
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Latin, Swedish
Pearl
Girl/Female
Indian, Marathi
Method; A Way to Perform a Task
Male
Babylonian
, a ferryman.
SLAB
SLAB
SLAB
SLAB
SLAB
n.
An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.
n.
A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
a.
Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.
n.
A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
n.
One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot.
v. t. & i.
See Slabber.
imp. & p. p.
of Slabber
a.
Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.
n.
A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
a.
Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy.
n.
A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
n.
A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
n.
See Slabber.
v. t.
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
n.
Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.
n.
Quality of being slabby.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Slabber
a.
Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces.
n.
A slabbing machine.
n.
A saw for cutting slabs from logs.