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Meaning
Noun
●
A large,
flat
piece
of
solid
material
; a
solid
object
that is large and
flat
.
●
A
paving stone
; a flagstone.
●
In Australian English:
A
carton
containing
24
cans
(chiefly of beer).
●
An outside
piece
taken
from a
log
or
timber
when
sawing
it into
boards
,
planks
, etc.
●
In Nautical:
The
slack
part of a sail.
●
In American English:
A large,
luxury
pre
-1980 General Motors
vehicle
,
particularly
a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
●
In Surfing:
A very large wave.
●
In Programming:
The amount by which a
cache
can
grow
or
shrink
, used in
memory
allocation.
●
In Geology:
Part of a
tectonic plate
that is being, or has been, subducted.
●
In Construction:
A poured-concrete
foundation
for a building.
●
In Geometry:
A
region
between two
parallel
lines
in the Euclidean
plane
, or between two
parallel
planes
in
three-dimensional
Euclidean
space
, or between two
hyperplanes
in higher dimensions.
●
Mud, sludge.
●
In Southern US English:
A
car
that has been
modified
with
equipment
such as
loudspeakers
,
lights
,
special
paint
,
hydraulics
, and other accessories.
●
A
bird
, the wryneck.
●
In Computing:
A
sequence
of 12
adjacent
bits
,
serving
as a
byte
in some computers.
Verb
●
To make something into a slab.
Adj
●
Thick; viscous.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
slab
English
sclabbe
Middle English (1100-1500)
Sourced from
Etym
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