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 stone slab is a big stone, flat and relatively thin, often of rectangular or almost rectangular form. They are generally used for paving floors, for covering walls or as headstones. In dolmens Most dolmen constructions were built using stone ...

, 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) In geology, the slab is a significant constituent of subduction zones . Subduction slabs drive plate tectonics by pulling along the lithosphere to which they attach in a process known as slab pull and by inducing currents in the mantle via sla ...

, that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting ** Slab pull force, 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) 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, a flat package containing a large number of cans of beer

Places

* Slab Point, a rocky point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

United States

* Slab, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia * Slab City, California, a locality in the Colorado Desert * Slab City, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin * Slab Fork, a tributary of the Guyandotte River in southern West Virginia

Media and entertainment

* Slab (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe * ''The Slab'', a 2004 UK poetry anthology * Slab, a character in ''The Ripping Friends'' * SLAB!, 1980s industrial music group * ''The Slab'', or Slabside Penitentiary, a metahuman prison in the DC Comics universe * Slab, a character in "Mr. Young"

Technology

* Slab (unit), a 12-bit unit of computer memory on the NCR 315 * Slab allocation, a computer memory management mechanism * Bar (form), a mobile phone form factor also known as a slab * Slab method, a ray-box intersection algorithm * Slab serif, a kind of typeface * Slab construction, a building method

Mathematics

* Slab (geometry), the volume between two parallel planes

Organisations

* Scottish Legal Aid Board * Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ symbol)

Other uses

* Coin slab is a coin holder which holds a coin that has been sealed in an acrylic or lucite holder * Slab of Bacon, a traveling trophy in American college football rivalry games * Thomas Murphy (Irish republican) (born 1946), nicknamed "Slab" * Student loan asset-backed security, an asset-backed security#Student loans, asset-backed security * "S.L.A.B. theory", a term coined by David Bordwell to refer to theories that use the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and/or Barthes * "Slab", a disc golf distance driver by Infinite Discs * Stupendously large black hole (SLAB), a hypothetical region of spacetime {{disambiguation, geo