Slack may refer to:

Places

Slack, West Yorkshire Outlane is a village in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, situated approximately south-west of Elland, north-west of Huddersfield and south of Halifax. The village is situated next to the M62 motorway near Junction 23 and straddles the K ...

, a village in Calderdale, England *

The Slack The Slack is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated near to Butterknowle, to the west of Bishop Auckland. References

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, a village in County Durham, England *

Slack (river) The Slack (, ) is a coastal river in the Pas-de-Calais department, in northern France. It rises at Hermelinghen on Mount Binôt, flows through Rinxent, Marquise, Beuvrequen, Slack (village near Ambleteuse) and flows into the English Channel i ...

, a river in Pas-de-Calais department, France *

Slacks Creek, Queensland Slacks Creek is a suburb in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia. In the , Slacks Creek had a population of 10,432 people. Geography The Pacific Motorway forms most of the eastern boundary of the suburb. The creek that gave its name to t ...

, a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia

Science and technology

* File slack, a kind of computer internal fragmentation *

Slack bus In electrical power systems a slack bus (or swing bus), defined as a Vδ bus, is used to balance the active power , P, and reactive power , Q, in a system while performing load flow studies. The slack bus is used to provide for system losses by ...

, an electrical power regulating system used to conduct load flow studies *

Slack (project management) In project management, float or slack is the amount of time that a task in a project network can be delayed without causing a delay to: * subsequent tasks ("''free float''") * project completion date ("''total float''"). ''Total float'' is associ ...

, the time that a task in a project network can be delayed without delaying subsequent tasks or the overall project *

Slack (software) Slack is an instant messaging program designed by Slack Technologies and owned by Salesforce. Although Slack was developed for professional and organizational communications, it has been adopted as a community platform. Users can communicate ...

, a team communication tool that can be used for collaboration * Slack variable, a mathematical concept * Slackware, a Linux distribution * Slack tub, used by a blacksmith to quench hot metal

People

* Andrew Slack (born 1955), Australian rugby union player *

Charlie Slack Charles E. Slack (February 26, 1931 – July 3, 2020) was an American college basketball player from Marshall University. He holds the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I record for the highest single-season rebo ...

(1931–2020), American basketball player *

George Slack George W. Slack (April 2, 1874 – March 17, 1950) was an American farmer and politician. Born in the Town of Smelser, Grant County, Wisconsin, Slack farmed near Big Patch, Wisconsin. Slack served on the town board and the Platteville, Wisc ...

(1874–1950), American politician * Shanon Slack (born 1984), American mixed martial artist

Other uses

Resource slack Resource slack, in the business and management literature, is the level of availability of a resource. Resource slack can be considered as the opposite of resource scarcity or resource constraints. The availability of resources can therefore be ...

, the level of availability of a resource to a business * Slack, the central belief of the parody religion 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 * Slacks or trousers * Slack, the valley or trough between

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Slack action In railroading, slack action is the amount of free movement of one car before it transmits its motion to an adjoining coupled car. This free movement results from the fact that in railroad practice cars are loosely coupled, and the coupling is oft ...

, free movement due to loose couplings between railway cars

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