Slab

Slab or SLAB may refer to:

Physical materials

• Concrete slab, a flat concrete plate used in construction
• Slab (casting), a length of metal
• Slab (geology), that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting
  • Slab pull force, the tectonic plate force due to subduction
  • Slab suction, one of the major plate tectonic driving forces
  • Slab window, a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate
  • Slab and counter slab, the two counterparts of a fossil impression
• Slab hut, a kind of dwelling made from slabs of split or sawn timber

Places

• Slab, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia
• Slab City, California, a locality in the Colorado Desert, United States
• Slab City, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin
• Slab Fork, a tributary of the Guyandotte River in southern West Virginia, United States
• Slab Point, a rocky point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Media and entertainment

• Slab (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
• Slab, a character in The Ripping Friends
• Slab, a character in Doctor Who
• SLAB!, 1980s Industrial music band
• The Slab, or Slabside Penitentiary, a metahuman prison in the DC Comics universe
• Slab, a character in "Mr. Young"
• "Whole Slab", an American rapper previously known as "Deuce Poppi"

Computing and technology

• Slab (NCR), a unit of computer memory in the NCR 315 architecture
• Slab allocation, a computer memory management mechanism
• A synonym for the Bar mobile phone form factor

Other uses

• SLAB, Stanford Space Rendezvous Laboratory
• SLAB, abbreviation for the Scottish Legal Aid Board
• SLAB, the NASDAQ symbol for Silicon Laboratories
• SLABS, abbreviation for Student Loan Asset-Backed Security
• "Slab", an abbreviation for "slab pie", a type of rectangular sweet fruit pie
• Slab of Bacon, a traveling trophy in American college football rivalry games
• Slab serif, a kind of typeface
• Thomas Murphy (Irish republican) (born 1946), nicknamed "Slab"
• Scottish Labour Party, commonly abbreviated "SLAB"