Slot

Slot may refer to:

• A narrow opening through which an object can pass, for example in a:
  • Vending machine slot
  • Slot machine, a type of casino game
• Slot, a space for a container on a ship, usually expressed as a 20' or 40' slot (i.e. 20 or 40 feet)
• Slot (car racing), a slot in the track on which slot cars race in and are guided by
• Slot (ice hockey), the area on the hockey rink directly ahead of the goaltender between the faceoff circles on each side
• Orbital slot, allotted position for a satellite in a "crowded" orbit

Technology

• Groove (engineering), a feature cut into a hard material to provide a location for another component
  • Tongue and groove
• Slot (computer architecture), the operation issue and data path machinery associated with a single execute pipeline in a CPU
  • Edge connector socket ("slot"), any type of female electrical connector for use with printed circuit boards having matching edge connectors
  • Slot 1, the physical and electrical specification for the connector used by some of Intel's microprocessors
  • Slot 2, the physical and electrical specification for the connector used by some of Intel's microprocessors
  • Slot A, the physical and electrical specification for the edge-connector used by early versions of AMD's Athlon processor
• Leading edge slot, an aerodynamic device used on fixed wing aircraft
• Slot antenna, a directional antenna consisting of a slot in a piece of metal
• Kensington Security Slot, small hole found on almost all recent small or portable computer and electronics equipment used for attaching a lock

Other

• Dance slot, an imaginary narrow rectangle along which a follower moves back and forth with respect to the leader
• Landing slot, right allocated to an airline by an airport or government agency to schedule a landing or departure at a specific time
• "Slot", the Danish and Dutch word for castle or fortified place, and can refer to several places, e.g.
  • Søborg Slot
• "The Slot", a name for New Georgia Sound, used by the Tokyo Express to supply the Japanese garrison on Guadalcanal in World War II
• Slot (band), a Russian alternative/nu metal band
• Slots, common Internet-slang for the popular Warcraft III video game modification, Defense of the Ancients
• Slot canyon, a type of narrow canyon formed by the wear of water rushing through sandstone
• Slot time, the time it takes for an electronic pulse to travel the length between two nodes

See also

• All pages beginning with "Slot"
• All pages with titles containing "Slot"
• Slit (disambiguation)
• Slut (disambiguation)