Slant

Slant can refer to:

Bias

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

  • 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

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