Slack
Places
- Slack, West Yorkshire, a village in Calderdale, England
- Slack (river), a river in Pas-de-Calais department, France
- Slacks Creek, Queensland, a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia
Science and technology
- File slack, a kind of computer internal fragmentation
- Slack bus, an electrical power regulating system used to conduct load flow studies
- Slack (project management), the time that a task in a project network can be delayed without delaying subsequent tasks or the overall project
- Slack (software), a team communication tool
- Slack variable, a mathematical concept
- Slackware, a Linux distribution
- Slack tub, used by a blacksmith to quench hot metal
People
- Andrew Slack (born 1955), Australian rugby union player
- Charlie Slack (1931–2020), American basketball player
- George Slack (1874–1950), American politician
- Shanon Slack (born 1984), American mixed martial artist
Other uses
- Resource slack, the level of availability of a resource to a business
- Slack, the central belief of the parody religion Church of the SubGenius
- Slack coal, fragments of coal and coal dust; for example used in the Birchills Power Station
- Slackness or slack, lyrics of a crude or bawdy nature in dancehall music
- Slacks or trousers
- Slack, the valley or trough between dunes
- Slack action, free movement due to loose couplings between railway cars
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See also
- SLAC (disambiguation)
- Slacks (disambiguation)
- Slacker, a person who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic
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