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Slab

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Slab or SLAB may refer to:

Physical materials

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  • 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

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  • Slab Point, a rocky point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

United States

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People and charcters

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Fictional characters

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Media and entertainment

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  • SLAB!, 1980s industrial music group
  • "The Slab", a 1984 song by Hunters & Collectors off the album The Jaws of Life
  • The Slab, a 2004 UK poetry anthology
  • The Slab, or Slabside Penitentiary, a metahuman prison in the DC Comics universe

Technology

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Mathematics

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Organisations

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Other uses

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See also

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