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Slate Corporation (software company)
Slate Corporation was a software company founded in 1990 to develop applications for pen-based computers; it closed after four years and was sold to Compaq.
Slate roof
A slate roof is a roof covering of thin, flat pieces of natural slate nailed in overlapping courses, prized for a service life of over 100 years.
Slate Star Codex
Slate Star Codex (SSC) was Scott Alexander's blog on science, medicine, politics, and futurism, launched February 2013, deleted June 2020 over a New York Times naming dispute, and relaunched January 2021 as Astral Codex Ten on Substack.
Slateford Aqueduct
The Slateford Aqueduct, also called Slateford viaduct, is an eight-arch masonry aqueduct in Edinburgh, built 1818–1822 to carry the Union Canal over the Water of Leith.
Slater determinant
A Slater determinant is a determinant of one-electron spin-orbitals used to write an antisymmetric wave function for identical fermions, most often electrons in atoms and molecules.
Slater Stich
Slater Stich is a venture capitalist who joined Bain Capital Ventures as a Partner in December 2022, investing in early-stage infrastructure companies including Replicate, Polars, and Black Forest Labs.
Slatina Nera
Slatina Nera (Slatina-Nera) is a village in Sasca Montană commune, Caraș-Severin, Romania, on the Nera valley mining district; its recorded Mina Nera site has a Dacian La Tène settlement and a medieval mine, first mentioned in Marsigli's 1690/1700 conscription.
SLATM
SLATM, the Spectrum of London and Axilrod–Teller–Muto potential representation, is a molecular descriptor in quantum machine learning encoding molecules via one-, two-, and three-body terms.
SLATS (satellite)
SLATS, nicknamed TSUBAME, was a Japanese JAXA engineering test satellite that operated at super low altitudes down to 167.4 km from 2017 to 2019 using an ion engine.
Slaughter (American band)
Slaughter is an American glam metal band formed in 1988 in Las Vegas by Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum, ex-Vinnie Vincent Invasion. Known for Stick It to Ya (1990), the hits Up All Night and Fly to the Angels, and over 5 million records sold.
Slaughter to Prevail
Slaughter to Prevail, Russian deathcore band of Aleksandr "Alex Terrible" Shikolai and Jack Simmons; albums Misery Sermon, Kostolom, Grizzly; anti-war stance, Russian fine, Blood4Blood BKFC event.
Slaughter-House Cases
Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873), also called the New Orleans slaughterhouse cases: 5-4 Supreme Court decision, the first reading of the Fourteenth Amendment, confining Privileges or Immunities to national citizenship and upholding Louisiana's Crescent City slaughterhouse monopoly.
Slaughterbots
Slaughterbots is a 7-minute 2017 short film by the Future of Life Institute, directed by Stewart Sugg, dramatizing AI-driven micro-drone swarms killing targeted humans; it coined the popular term for lethal autonomous weapons and premiered at the UN CCW.
Slaughtered Vomit Dolls
Slaughtered Vomit Dolls is a 2006 Canadian experimental horror film by Lucifer Valentine, first of the Vomit Gore Trilogy, starring Ameara Lavey as Angela Aberdeen; 71 minutes, released 14 February 2006.
Slaughterhouse
Slaughterhouse (abattoir): facility where farmed animals are killed for meat. Regulated by EU Regulation 1099/2009, US Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, and WOAH Chapter 7.5, covering stunning, welfare, hygiene, and environment.
Slaughterhouse (group)
Slaughterhouse: American hip-hop supergroup of Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Royce da 5'9", and Crooked I, formed 2008 from the Halfway House track; E1 debut 2009, Shady's Welcome to: Our House 2012.
Slaughterhouse Rulez
Slaughterhouse Rulez: 2018 British comedy horror film, Crispian Mills's directorial work and first release from Pegg and Frost's Stolen Picture; fracking at a boarding school unleashes monsters, grossing $730,762 worldwide.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war novel subtitled The Children's Crusade, tells Billy Pilgrim's Dresden firebombing trauma through non-linear time, Tralfamadore aliens, and the refrain So it goes.
Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 American anti-war science fiction comedy-drama directed by George Roy Hill, adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's novel and starring Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim.
Slauson & Co
Slauson & Co is a Los Angeles-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Austin Clements and Ajay Relan to invest in underrepresented US technology founders.
Slauson Rec
Slauson Rec is Leo Lewis O'Neil's 2025 documentary, premiered at Cannes, about Shia LaBeouf's free experimental theater school at the Slauson Rec Center in South Central Los Angeles (2018–2020), built from about 800 hours of participant-shot footage.
Slava Marlow
Slava Marlow (Слава Марлоу), born Artyom Gotlib, is a Russian music producer and recording artist from Novosibirsk who produced Morgenshtern's hits before building a successful solo career.
Slava Ukraini (Слава Україні)
Slava Ukraini (Слава Україні), "Glory to Ukraine", is a Ukrainian patriotic greeting answered by "Heroyam slava". Official Armed Forces salute since 2018; documented from late-19th-century Kharkiv; its fascist-slogan characterization is disputed.
Slava-class cruiser
The Slava-class cruiser (Soviet Project 1164 Atlant) is a class of guided-missile cruisers built in the 1980s as carrier killers, now operated by the Russian Navy.
Slave breeding in the United States
Slave breeding in the United States, also called slave breeding in America, is the alleged or documented practice by slave owners of controlling enslaved people's reproduction for profit.
Slave Coast
The Slave Coast was the name European traders gave the West African coast on the Bight of Benin, a principal source of enslaved Africans for the transatlantic slave trade.
Slave collar
Slave collar: metal neck band or locked ring placed on enslaved people to mark ownership and deter flight. Best known are about 45 Roman examples of the 4th–5th centuries C.E., including the Zoninus collar promising a gold coin, and circa-1860 American iron collars.
Slave Inspection Law of 956
The Slave Inspection Law of 956 (奴婢按檢法) was a decree by Gwangjong of Goryeo that freed people unjustly enslaved by the powerful and restored them to commoner status.
Slave Investigation Act
The Slave Investigation Act (노비안검법), also called the Slave Review Act, was a 956 Goryeo law under King Gwangjong that restored wrongfully enslaved people to commoner status.
Slave Labor Graphics
Slave Labor Graphics (SLG), founded by Dan Vado in San Jose in 1986, is an independent comics publisher known for Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Lenore, and Milk and Cheese, its Amaze Ink imprint, and its 2011 digital-first conversion.