Slat, slats, or SLAT may refer to: * Slat (aircraft), aerodynamic surfaces on the leading edge of the wings of fixed-wing aircraft * a Lath, a narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles * Vertical or horizontal pieces of a window blind

People

* Slats Jordan (1878–1953), Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder * Slats Gill (1901–1966), American basketball and baseball head coach at Oregon State University * Glenn Hardin (1910–1975), American hurdler, 1936 Olympic gold medalist *

Slats Long Don "Slats" Long (December 6, 1906 – March 12, 1964) was an American jazz clarinetist. Long was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, and he played in the late 1920s and early 1930s with Cass Hagan (1928), Ed Farley, and Mike Riley (1935). He t ...

(1906–1964), American jazz clarinetist * Max Zaslofsky (1925–1985), American National Basketball Association player and American Basketball Association coach *

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), Canadian National Hockey League team president and former coach and general manager * Michael Slater (born 1970), Australian television presenter and former cricketer * Boyan Slat (born 1994), Dutch inventor, entrepreneur and engineering student

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 lion that appeared as the Leo the Lion mascot of MGM movie studio, used on black-and-white silent movies from 1924 to 1928. * ''Slat'', a work by American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra (born 1939) * Slats Slats Slats, a song by Skrillex

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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 ...

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

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, 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 *

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 JAXA satellite

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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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