Slot

Slot, the slot or Slots may refer to:

People

• Arne Slot (born 1978), Dutch footballer
• Gerrie Slot (born 1954), Dutch cyclist
• Hanke Bruins Slot (born 1977), Dutch politician
• Tonny Bruins Slot (born 1947), Dutch association football coach who is known for his analyses of matches and opponents
• Jørgen Slots, a Danish-born periodontist in the United States
• Margareta Slots (died 1669), Dutch-born mistress of Gustav II Adolf of Sweden

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

• Slot (band), a Russian alternative/nu metal band
• Slot, abbreviation of St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band, a pipe band based in Dublin, Ireland

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Dance slot, an imaginary narrow rectangle along which a follower moves back and forth with respect to the leader
• The Slot (TV series), an Australian television series

Sport

• Slot (ice hockey), the area on the hockey rink directly ahead of the goaltender between the faceoff circles on each side
• Slot, a space within a formation during a game of American football; see Glossary of American football

Technology

• Slot (computer architecture), the operation issue and data path machinery associated with a single execute pipeline in a CPU
• Expansion slot, portion of a computer mother board that can receive an expansion card
• Kensington Security Slot, a small hole found on almost all recent small or portable computer and electronics equipment used for attaching a lock
• Leading-edge slot, a fixed aerodynamic feature of the wing of some aircraft to reduce the stall speed
• Slot antenna, a directional antenna consisting of a slot in a piece of metal

Other uses

• Landing slot, a right allocated to an airline by an airport or government agency to schedule a landing or departure at a specific time
• Train slot, a license allocated to a rail transport company
• Mail slot or letter box, a receptacle for receiving incoming mail
• Orbital slot, an allotted position for a satellite in a "crowded" orbit
• Slot machine, a type of casino game
• Slot man or The slot, slang term for the chief copy editor on a newspaper
• "The Slot" or New Georgia Sound, a sound in the Solomon Islands known to Allied combatants during World War II
• The Slot, a gay hotel and sex club featured in the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Slot
• All pages with titles containing Slot
• Groove (engineering), a feature cut into a hard material to provide a location for another component
• Hole (disambiguation)
• Slat (disambiguation)
• Slet (disambiguation)
• Slit (disambiguation)
• Slut (disambiguation)
• Tongue and groove, a type of joinery employing slots and interlocking ridges cut into material