Slice may refer to: *

Cutting Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for wikt:cut, cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the scal ...

Food and beverage

*A portion of bread, pizza, cake, or meat that is cut flat and thin: :*

Sliced bread Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry si ...

Pizza by the slice Pizza by the slice is a fast food sold by pizzerias and food stands, making it also often a street food. The pizza slices may be plain or have various toppings. Some restaurants and pizza stands only sell pizza by the slice, while others sell ...

, a fast food dish *

Slice (drink) Slice is a line of fruit-flavored soft drinks originally manufactured by PepsiCo and introduced in 1984 (to replace the Teem brand) but discontinued by PepsiCo in North America in the late 2000s. Slice was reintroduced in the United States and ...

, a line of fruit-flavored soft drinks

In Australia and New Zealand

*A category of sweet or savory dishes: :*

Vanilla slice A vanilla slice, also known as a custard square, is a type of pastry. It consists of a thick custard, which is traditionally flavoured with vanilla or chocolate, and which is sandwiched between flaky puff pastry or filo pastry and iced with eithe ...

, a dessert cake similar to a brownie :*

Zucchini slice Zucchini slice is a dish common in Australia and New Zealand that bears similarities to frittatas and quick breads. It consists of zucchini, eggs, cheese, usually bacon, and flour baked to form a flat loaf. It is baked in a flat loaf, cut into ...

, a savory dish similar to a quiche

In arts and entertainment

Music

* ''Slice'', a Five for Fighting album, 2009 ** "Slice" (song), a 2009 song by Five for Fighting *''Slice'', a 1998 album by Arthur Loves Plastic * Slices (band)

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* Slice (TV channel), a Canadian TV channel formerly known as Life Network * ''Slice'' (film), 2018 film * Slice (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe *Slice, a region in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' stories, see Discworld (world)#The Ramtops *Slice, in lieu of "chapter", in

Norman Lindsay Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, art critic, novelist, cartoonist and amateur boxing, boxer. One of the most prolific and popular Australian artists of his ...

's children's book

The Magic Pudding ''The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff'' is a 1918 Australian children's book written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a comic fantasy, and a classic of Australian childr ...

In mathematics, science, and technology

Computing

Time slice In computing, preemption is the act of temporarily interrupting an executing task, with the intention of resuming it at a later time. This interrupt is done by an external scheduler with no assistance or cooperation from the task. This preempt ...

, the time during which a process runs *

Time slice multiplexing In computing, multitasking is the concurrent execution of multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time. New tasks can interrupt already started ones before they finish, instead of waiting for them to end. As a result ...

, a form of processor scheduling * Slice (disk), a logical division or partition of a hard disk *

Array slicing In computer programming, array slicing is an operation that extracts a subset of elements from an array and packages them as another array, possibly in a different dimension from the original. Common examples of array slicing are extracting a su ...

, an operation that extracts certain elements from an array *

Bit slicing Bit slicing is a technique for constructing a processor from modules of processors of smaller bit width, for the purpose of increasing the word length; in theory to make an arbitrary ''n''-bit central processing unit (CPU). Each of these com ...

, a technique for constructing a processor from modules of smaller bit width *Specification Language for Ice,

Internet Communications Engine The Internet Communications Engine, or Ice, is an open-source RPC framework developed by ZeroC. It provides SDKs for C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Ruby and Swift, and can run on various operating systems, inc ...

Mathematics

*Slice category, in category theory, a special case of a comma category *

Slice genus In mathematics, the slice genus of a smooth knot ''K'' in ''S''3 (sometimes called its Murasugi genus or 4-ball genus) is the least integer g such that ''K'' is the boundary of a connected, orientable 2-manifold ''S'' of genus ''g'' properly embedd ...

, in knot theory *

Slice knot A slice knot is a mathematical knot in 3-dimensional space that bounds an embedded disk in 4-dimensional space. Definition A knot K \subset S^3 is said to be a topologically or smoothly slice knot, if it is the boundary of an embedded disk in ...

, in knot theory *

Slice sampling Slice sampling is a type of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for pseudo-random number sampling, i.e. for drawing random samples from a statistical distribution. The method is based on the observation that to sample a random variable one can sampl ...

, a Monte Carlo sampling method *

Projection-slice theorem In mathematics, the projection-slice theorem, central slice theorem or Fourier slice theorem in two dimensions states that the results of the following two calculations are equal: * Take a two-dimensional function ''f''(r), project (e.g. using the ...

, a theorem about Fourier transforms *

Bers slice In the mathematical theory of Kleinian groups, Bers slices and Maskit slices, named after Lipman Bers and Bernard Maskit, are certain slices through the moduli space of Kleinian groups. Bers slices For a quasi-Fuchsian group, the limit set is ...

in theory of Kleinian groups

Other uses in science and technology

Slice preparation The slice preparation or brain slice is a laboratory technique in electrophysiology that allows the study of a synapse or neural circuit in isolation from the rest of the brain, in controlled physiological conditions. Brain tissue is initially sl ...

or brain slice, an ''in vitro'' technique for neurophysiology *

Slice (electronics) In electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate) is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si), used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells. The wafer serv ...

, a wafer of semiconductor material used in circuits

Sports

Backspin In racquet sports and golf, backspin or underspin refers to the reverse rotation of a ball, in relation to the ball's trajectory, that is imparted on the ball by a slice or chop shot. Backspin generates an upward force that lifts the ball (see M ...

, in racquet sports or golf; also known as "slice" in racquet sports *

Golf slice The golf swing is the action by which players hit the ball in the sport of golf. The golf swing is a complex motion involving the whole body; the technicalities of the swing are known as golf stroke mechanics. There are differing opinions on what ...

, or "slice", a golf shot in which the ball curves sideways in flight due to sidespin, usually unintentionally, as a result of a mishit * Kimbo Slice (1974–2016), a mixed-martial arts fighter * Barry "Slice" Rohrssen (1960–), an American basketball coach

Business and other uses

* Slice, Inc., a company that designs and produces box cutters and other cutting tools * Rakuten Slice, a company that measures digital commerce and provides online shopping services *

Slice (app) Slice is an online food ordering platform for independent pizzerias. It allows pizzeria owners to offer their products to their customers using a mobile-optimized website and their customers can place orders through the Slice app and social medi ...

, an online food ordering platform for independent pizzerias