slab

IPA: sɫˈæb

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.

Examples of "slab" in Sentences

The workers carefully placed the heavy slab of marble onto the ground
She spread the concrete mix evenly across the slab to create a smooth surface
The archaeologists uncovered a large slab of stone with ancient inscriptions
The chef chopped the vegetables on the wooden slab before adding them to the soup
The construction crew lifted the concrete slab into place to form the foundation of the building