Slab or SLAB may refer to:

Physical materials

Concrete slab A concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings, consisting of a flat, horizontal surface made of cast concrete. Steel- reinforced slabs, typically between 100 and 500 mm thick, are most often used to construct floors and ...

, a flat concrete plate used in construction * Stone slab, a flat stone used in construction *

Slab (casting) Semi-finished casting products are intermediate castings produced in a steel mill that need further processing before being finished goods. There are four types: ''ingots'', ''blooms'', ''billets'', and ''slabs''. Ingot Ingots are large rough ...

, a length of metal * Slab (geology), that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting **

Slab pull force Slab pull is a geophysical mechanism whereby the cooling and subsequent densifying of a subducting tectonic plate produces a downward force along the rest of the plate. In 1975 Forsyth and Uyeda used the inverse theory method to show that, of the m ...

, the tectonic plate force due to subduction **

Slab suction 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 their movement, creating larger amounts of displacement. It is because of these forces, slab pul ...

, one of the major plate tectonic driving forces **

Slab window In geology, a slab window is a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate when a mid-ocean ridge meets with a subduction zone and plate divergence at the ridge and convergence at the subduction zone continue, causing the ridge to be subducted. ...

, a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate **

Slab (fossil) A compression fossil is a fossil preserved in sedimentary rock that has undergone physical compression. While it is uncommon to find animals preserved as good compression fossils, it is very common to find plants preserved this way. The reason fo ...

and counter slab, the two counterparts of a fossil impression * Slab hut, a kind of dwelling made from slabs of split or sawn timber * Slab of

beer Beer is one of the oldest and the most widely consumed type of alcoholic drink in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from ce ...

, a flat package containing a large number of cans of beer

Places

Slab Point Slab Point is a rocky point on the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the north side of the entrance to Eliseyna Cove and the south side of the entrance to Charybdis Cove. The ...

, a rocky point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

United States

Slab, West Virginia Slab is an unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers cla ...

, an unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia *

Slab City, California Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community consisting largely of snowbirds in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County, California. It took its name from concrete sl ...

, a locality in the Colorado Desert *

Slab City, Wisconsin Slab City, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States, in the town of Hartland. It is located one mile south of Bonduel, on Wisconsin Highway 47 State Trunk Highway 47 (often called Highway 47, STH- ...

, an unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin * Slab Fork, a tributary of the Guyandotte River in southern West Virginia

Media and entertainment

Slab (comics) The Nasty Boys are a group of supervillain mutants appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. This group exists in Marvel's shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe. These characters are the personal strike force of X-M ...

, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe * ''

The Slab ''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 in this book include Dan Fante, Geoff Hattersley Geoffrey, Geoffroy, Geoff, etc., m ...

'', a 2004 UK poetry anthology * Slab, a character in '' The Ripping Friends'' * Slab, a character in ''Doctor Who'' *

SLAB! SLAB! are an industrial music/alternative rock band initially active between the mid-1980s and early 1990s. They reformed in 2009. History The band's first release was the "Mars on Ice" 12-inch single in 1986 on Dave Kitson's Ink Records (an of ...

, 1980s industrial music group * ''The Slab'', or Slabside Penitentiary, a metahuman prison in the

DC Comics DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...

universe * Slab, a character in "

Mr. Young ''Mr. Young'' is a Canadian television series that premiered on March 1, 2011, on YTV. The series was filmed in Burnaby, British Columbia. The series was created by Dan Signer (who also worked on Disney Channel series such as ''The Suite Life on ...

Technology

Slab (unit) The NCR 315 Data Processing System, released in January 1962 by NCR Corporation, NCR, is a second-generation computer. All printed circuit boards use resistor–transistor logic (RTL) to create the various logic elements. It uses 12-bit computing ...

, a 12-bit unit of computer memory on the NCR 315 * Slab allocation, a computer memory management mechanism *

Bar (form) The form factor of a mobile phone is its size, shape, and style, as well as the layout and position of its major components. With one non-movable section Bar A bar (also known as a slab, block, candybar) phone takes the shape of a cuboid, usual ...

, a mobile phone form factor also known as a slab *

Slab serif 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 serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular ( Rockwell), ...

, a kind of typeface *

Slab construction (plural: , german: Platte + Bau, lit=panel/slab' + 'building/ construction) is a building constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs. The word is a compound of (in this context: panel) and (building). Such buildings are often found ...

, a building method

Mathematics

Slab (geometry) In geometry, a slab is a region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes or hyperplanes in higher dimensions. Set definition A slab can also be defined as a set of points: \, where n is the normal vector ...

, the volume between two parallel planes

Organisations

Scottish Legal Aid Board The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, responsible for managing legal aid. It was established in April 1987, under the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986, taking over functions ...

Silicon Laboratories Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (Silicon Labs) is a fabless global technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, other silicon devices and software, which it sells to electronics design engineers and manufacturers in Internet of Thi ...

(NASDAQ symbol)

Other uses

Slab of Bacon Slab or SLAB may refer to: Physical materials * Concrete slab, a flat concrete plate used in construction * Stone slab, a flat stone used in construction * Slab (casting), a length of metal * Slab (geology), that portion of a tectonic plate that i ...

, a traveling trophy in American college football rivalry games *

Thomas Murphy (Irish republican) Thomas Murphy ( ga, 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 Irish Republican Army. His farm straddles County Armagh and County Louth on t ...

(born 1946), nicknamed "Slab" * Student loan asset-backed security, an asset-backed security * "S.L.A.B. theory", a term coined by

David Bordwell David Jay Bordwell (; born July 23, 1947) is an American film theorist and film historian. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1974, he has written more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including ''Narration in th ...

to refer to theories that use the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and/or Barthes * "Slab", a disc golf distance driver by

Infinite Discs Infinite Discs is an American disc golf equipment retail company based in Logan, Utah. The company also maintains a disc golf scorekeeping app, a course directory, a round tracking website, and a line of discs. History The company was found ...

Stupendously large black hole A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun (). Black holes are a class of astronomical obj ...

(SLAB), a hypothetical region of spacetime {{disambiguation, geo