Slack

Slack may refer to:

People

• Andrew Slack (born 1955), Australian rugby union player
• Charlie Slack, American basketball player
• George Slack (1874–1950), American politician
• Shanon Slack (born 1984), American mixed martial artist

Places

• Slack, West Yorkshire, a village in Calderdale, England
• Slack (river), a river in Pas-de-Calais department, North 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

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
• Trousers or slacks
• Slack, the valley or trough between dunes
• Slack action, free movement due to loose couplings between railway cars

See also

• SLAC (disambiguation)
• Slacks (disambiguation)
• Slacker, a person who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic