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 sl ...

, 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) A compression fossil is a fossil preserved in sedimentary rock that has undergone physical compression. While it is uncommon to find animals preserved as good compression fossils, it is very common to find plants preserved this way. The reason f ...

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 Beer is one of the oldest and the most widely consumed type of alcoholic drink in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from ce ...

, a flat package containing a large number of cans of beer

Places

Slab Point Slab Point is a rocky point on the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the north side of the entrance to Eliseyna Cove and the south side of the entrance to Charybdis Cove. Th ...

, 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 The Slab Fork is a tributary of the Guyandotte River, long, in southern West Virginia in the United States. Via the Guyandotte and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of in a mainly rural area o ...

, 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 ''The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men!'' (also known as ''The Ripping Friends'') is an animated television series, created by John Kricfalusi, creator of ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' on Nickelodeon. The series aired for one season on Fox ...

'' * Slab, a character in ''Doctor Who'' * SLAB!, 1980s industrial music group * ''The Slab'', or Slabside Penitentiary, a metahuman prison in the

DC Comics DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...

universe * Slab, a character in " Mr. Young"

Technology

Slab (unit) The NCR 315 Data Processing System, released in January 1962 by NCR, is a second-generation computer. All printed circuit boards use resistor–transistor logic (RTL) to create the various logic elements. It uses 12-bit ''slab'' memory structure ...

, a 12-bit unit of computer memory on the NCR 315 *

Slab allocation Slab allocation is a memory management mechanism intended for the efficient memory allocation of objects. In comparison with earlier mechanisms, it reduces fragmentation caused by allocations and deallocations. This technique is used for retai ...

, a computer memory management mechanism * Bar (form), a mobile phone form factor also known as a slab *

Slab serif In typography, a slab serif (also called ''mechanistic'', ''square serif'', ''antique'' or ''Egyptian'') typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular ( Rockwell), ...

, a kind of typeface *

Slab construction (plural: , german: Platte + Bau, lit=panel/slab' + 'building/ construction) is a building constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs. The word is a compound of (in this context: panel) and (building). Such buildings are often found ...

, a building method

Mathematics

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

Organisations

* Scottish Legal Aid Board *

Silicon Laboratories Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (Silicon Labs) is a fabless global technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, other silicon devices and software, which it sells to electronics design engineers and manufacturers in Internet of Th ...

(NASDAQ symbol)

Other uses

* Slab of Bacon, a traveling trophy in American college football rivalry games *

Thomas Murphy (Irish republican) Thomas Murphy ( ga, Tomás Mac Murchaidh: born 26 August 1949), also known as Slab, is an Irish republican, believed to be a former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. His farm straddles County Armagh and County Louth o ...

(born 1946), nicknamed "Slab" * Student loan asset-backed security, an

asset-backed security An asset-backed security (ABS) is a security whose income payments, and hence value, are derived from and collateralized (or "backed") by a specified pool of underlying assets. The pool of assets is typically a group of small and illiquid asse ...

* "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 Infinite Discs is an American disc golf equipment retail company based in Logan, Utah. The company also maintains a disc golf scorekeeping app, a course directory, a round tracking website, and a line of discs. History The company was found ...

* Stupendously large black hole (SLAB), a hypothetical region of spacetime {{disambiguation, geo