Slant

Slant can refer to:

Bias

• Bias or other non-objectivity in journalism, politics, academia or other fields

Technical

• Slant range, in telecommunications, the line-of-sight distance between two points which are not at the same level
• Slant drilling (or Directional drilling), the practice of drilling non-vertical wells
• Slant height, is the distance from any point on the circle to the apex of a right circular cone

Automotive

• Slant-4 engine (disambiguation), a type of car engine
• Triumph Slant-4 engine, an engine developed by Triumph
• Chrysler Slant-6 engine, an engine developed by Chrysler

Publications

• Slant (journal), a Catholic journal
• The Slant, a student humor magazine at Vanderbilt University
• / (novel) (or Slant), a book by science fiction writer Greg Bear
• Slant Magazine, a film, TV, and music review website
• Slant (fanzine), a fanzine by Walt Willis, winner of the 1954 Retrospective Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
• Slant Six Games, a video game developer founded in 2005

Bands

• The Slant (band), an American alternative rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Slant 6, an all-female punk rock trio based in Washington, D.C.
• The Slants, an Asian dance/ rock group from Portland, Oregon

Other

• A growth medium such as agar set in an inclined glass tube for growing microbiological cultures.
• Slant (route), an American football play pattern.
• Slant (handwriting), an attribute of Western handwriting

• slants, the slashes used to set off punctuation from other text
• A racial slur for people of Asian descent, in reference to the shape of their eyes; see List of ethnic slurs

See also

• Piccadilly Slant-Abraham's Cove, a designated place in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador