Slab
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Template:Wiktionary Slab can refer to:
- Slab (computer science) - a unit of storage unique to the NCR 315.
- in architecture and construction a type of foundation; see Slab-on-grade foundations
- a large rectangular piece of metal (dimensions: 1.25m wide, 230mm thick, 12m long) that is usually used in the industry as a semi-finished product for further production into sheet metal;
- a less-than-vertical rock face or surface;
- a character on The Ripping Friends;
- fullsize luxury pre-1980 GM vehicles, primarily Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac.
- In geometry, a slab is the area between two parallel hyperplanes.
- In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Slab is a troll narcotic - a street name for ammonium chloride mixed with radium - that causes the user to "sit in a corner to watch the colours".
- a slang word for a carton or 24-pack of beer most common in eastern Australia
- an Australian surfwear company
- in film theory, SLAB refers to the poststrukturalist approach to film studies. The name "SLAB" comes from the last name of Ferdinand de Saussure (linguist), Jaques Lacan (psychoanalyst), Louis Althusser (struktural marxist) and Roland Barthes (cultural theorist).