Slab

Slab or SLAB may refer to:

Physical materials

 * Concrete slab, a flat concrete plate used in construction
 * Stone slab, a flat stone 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 (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
 * "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
 * Slab (car), a slang name to heavily customized and colorful cars associated with Texan rap culture