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Slat, slats, or SLAT may refer to:
- Slat (aircraft), aerodynamic surfaces on the leading edge of the wings of fixed-wing aircraft
- a Lath, a narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles
- Vertical or horizontal pieces of a window blind
People
- Slats Jordan (1878–1953), Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder
- Slats Gill (1901–1966), American basketball and baseball head coach at Oregon State University
- Glenn Hardin (1910–1975), American hurdler, 1936 Olympic gold medalist
- Slats Long (1906–1964), American jazz clarinetist
- Max Zaslofsky (1925–1985), American National Basketball Association player and American Basketball Association coach
- Glen Sather (born 1943), Canadian National Hockey League team president and former coach and general manager
- Michael Slater (born 1970), Australian television presenter and former cricketer
- Boyan Slat (born 1994), Dutch inventor, entrepreneur and engineering student
Arts and entertainment
- A character in the American comic strip Abbie an' Slats
- Slats Grobnik, a character created by American newspaper columnist Mike Royko
- Slats (1919–1936), a lion that appeared as the Leo the Lion mascot of MGM movie studio, used on black-and-white silent movies from 1924 to 1928.
- Slat, a work by American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra (born 1939)
SLAT
- AQM-127 SLAT (Supersonic Low-Altitude Target), a United States Navy target drone
- Systeme de Lutte Anti-Torpille, a naval anti-torpedo system; see for example FREMM multipurpose frigate
- Second Level Address Translation, a computer technology
- Software Liberty Association of Taiwan, a member of the Free Standards Group
- Slow, Low, Aerial Target, a pejorative nickname for the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft
Other uses
- Slat, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
- A rarely used alternate name for a slash (/)
gollark: If you want maximum efficiency and have no concern for practical human use, just take English, run it through a good compression algorithm, and encode it as syllables somehow.
gollark: It wouldn't be very good to *speak* that, because of low noise resistance.
gollark: It annoys me that nobody unironically uses machine-parseable languages, so you have to use either horrible regices or giant machine learning models to do natural language processing.
gollark: * 128 possible values, or 7 bits
gollark: This is obviously the best language possible.
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Slat
- All pages with titles containing slat
- Plank (disambiguation)
- Slet (disambiguation)
- Slit (disambiguation)
- Slot (disambiguation)
- Slut (disambiguation)
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