slab
IPA: sɫˈæb
noun
- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
- (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- (surfing) A very large wave.
- (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- (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.
- (archaic) Mud, sludge.
- (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
- (British dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wryneck.
- (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
verb
- (transitive) To make something into a slab.
adjective
- (archaic) Thick; viscous.
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Examples of "slab" in Sentences
- I found the wooden slab in my backyard.
- The material was poured and the slab broken.
- The slab broach is the simplest surface broach.
- The final step was to saw the slab into pencils.
- The first is the question of insulating a floor slab.
- This is marked by a square porphyry slab in the floor.
- The paving of the nave is of limestone or granite slabs.
- The remainder of the first floor sits directly on the slab.
- The concentration of particles in the slab is represented by N.
- The foundation barrettes support the concrete slab which holds the buildings.