Slat, slats, or SLAT may refer to:
Common uses
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Leading-edge slat
A slat is an aerodynamic surface on the leading edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. When retracted, the slat lies flush with the rest of the wing. A slat is deployed by sliding forward, opening a slot between the wing and the slat. Air from ...
, an aerodynamic surface on the leading edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft
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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 m ...
, 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 mate ...
Arts and entertainment
* A character in the American comic strip ''
Abbie an' Slats''
* 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, Illinois. Over his 42-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the '' Chicago Daily News'', the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', an ...
* Slats (1919–1936), a
Leo the Lion mascot of MGM
People
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Slats Jordan (1878–1953), American baseball player
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Slats Gill (1901–1966), American basketball and baseball head coach
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Glenn Hardin (1910–1975), or Slats, American hurdler, 1936 Olympic gold medalist
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Slats Long (1906–1964), American jazz clarinetist
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Max Zaslofsky (1925–1985), or Slats, American basketball player
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Glen Sather (born 1943), or Slats, Canadian ice hockey player
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Michael Slater (born 1970), or Slats, Australian cricketer
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Boyan Slat (born 1994), Dutch inventor and entrepreneur
Science and technology
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AQM-127 SLAT (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 European multi-purpose frigate or FREMM (; ) is a Franco-Italian family of warships designed by Naval Group and Fincantieri. This surface combatant is known in France as the ''Aquitaine'' class (17 units planned, of which 9 were later cance ...
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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 throug ...
, a computer technology
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Software Liberty Association of Taiwan, 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, founded on May 8, 2000.
All standards developed by the Free Standards Group (FSG) were released under op ...
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Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, a Japanese satellite
Other uses
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Slat, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
* A rarely used alternate name for a
slash (/)
See also
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Plank (disambiguation)
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Slet (disambiguation)
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Slit (disambiguation)
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Slot (disambiguation)
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Slut (disambiguation)
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Nicknames