Slat, slats, or SLAT may refer to:

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Leading-edge slat Slats are aerodynamic surfaces on the leading edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft which, when deployed, allow the wing to operate at a higher angle of attack. A higher coefficient of lift is produced as a result of angle of attack and speed, ...

, an aerodynamic surface on the leading edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft *

Lath A lath or slat is a thin, narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles, on lath and plaster walls and ceilings to hold plaster, and in lattice and trellis work. ''Lath'' has expanded to mean any type of backing mate ...

, a narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles * Vertical or horizontal pieces of a

window blind A window blind is a type of window covering. There are many different kinds of window blinds which use a variety of control systems. A typical window blind is made up of several long horizontal or vertical slats of various types of hard mater ...

Arts and entertainment

* A character in the American comic strip ''

Abbie an' Slats ''Abbie an' Slats'' is an American comic strip which ran from July 12, 1937, to January 30, 1971, initially written by Al Capp and drawn by Raeburn Van Buren. It was distributed by United Feature Syndicate. Publication history ''Abbie an' Slat ...

'' * Slats Grobnik, a character created by American newspaper columnist

Mike Royko Michael Royko Jr. (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for the ''Chicago Daily News'', the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', and the ''Chicago ...

* Slats (1919–1936), a Leo the Lion mascot of MGM

People

Slats Jordan Clarence Veasey (Slats) Jordan (September 27, 1878 to December 7, 1953) was a Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder. Jordan played for the Baltimore Orioles (1901–02), Baltimore Orioles in and . Jordan played in one game in each s ...

(1878–1953), American baseball player *

Slats Gill Amory Tingle "Slats" Gill (May 1, 1901 – April 5, 1966) was an American college basketball coach, the head coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis for 36 seasons. As a player, Gill was twice named to the All- Pacific Coast Conference bask ...

(1901–1966), American basketball and baseball head coach *

Glenn Hardin Glenn Foster "Slats" Hardin (July 1, 1910 – March 6, 1975) was an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Derma, Mississippi, Glenn Hardin was the world's dominant 400 m hurdler in the 1930s and was equ ...

(1910–1975), or Slats, American hurdler, 1936 Olympic gold medalist * Slats Long (1906–1964), American jazz clarinetist *

Max Zaslofsky Max "Slats" Zaslofsky (December 7, 1925 – October 15, 1985) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was first-team All-NBA in the league's first four seasons. In the 1947–48 BAA season, at 21 years of age, he led the BAA ...

(1925–1985), or Slats, American basketball player *

Glen Sather Glen Cameron “Slats” Sather (born September 2, 1943) is a Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive. He is the current senior advisor and alternate governor of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the Rangers ...

(born 1943), or Slats, Canadian ice hockey player *

Michael Slater Michael Jonathon Slater (born 21 February 1970) is an Australian former professional cricketer and former television presenter. He played in 74 Test matches and 42 One Day Internationals for the Australia national cricket team. Early life Sl ...

(born 1970), or Slats, Australian cricketer *

Boyan Slat Boyan Slat (born 27 July 1994) is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur. A former aerospace engineering student, he is the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. Initial interest in plastic pollution In 2011, aged 16, Slat found more plastic than fish while div ...

(born 1994), Dutch inventor and entrepreneur

Science and technology

AQM-127 SLAT The AQM-127 Supersonic Low-Altitude Target (SLAT) was a target drone developed during the 1980s by Martin Marietta for use by the United States Navy. Derived from Martin Marietta's work on the cancelled ASALM missile, SLAT proved to have severe d ...

(Supersonic Low-Altitude Target), a United States Navy target drone * ''Systeme de Lutte Anti-Torpille'', a naval anti-torpedo system, on

FREMM multipurpose frigate The FREMM (French: ''Frégate Européenne Multi-Mission''; Italian: ''Fregata Europea Multi-Missione''), which stands for "European multi-purpose frigate", is a Franco-Italian family of multi-purpose frigates designed by Naval Group and Fincanti ...

Second Level Address Translation Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), also known as nested paging, is a hardware-assisted virtualization technology which makes it possible to avoid the overhead associated with software-managed shadow page tables. AMD has supported SLAT through ...

, a computer technology *

Software Liberty Association of Taiwan Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists o ...

, a member of the

Free Standards Group The Free Standards Group was an industry non-profit consortium chartered to primarily specify and drive the adoption of open source standards. It was founded on May 8, 2000. All standards developed by the Free Standards Group (FSG) were release ...

Super Low Altitude Test Satellite Super Low Altitude Test Satellite (SLATS) or Tsubame was a JAXA satellite intended to demonstrate operations in very low Earth orbit (VLEO, below 200 km), using ion engines to counteract aerodynamic drag from the Earth's atmosphere which i ...

, a Japanese satellite

Other uses

Slat, Kentucky Slat is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illi ...

, United States, an unincorporated community * A rarely used alternate name for a slash (/)

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