Slip

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Slip or The Slip may refer to:

  • Slip (clothing), an underdress or underskirt

Music

  • The Slip (band), a rock band
  • Slip (album), a 1993 album by the band Quicksand
  • The Slip (album) (2008), a.k.a. Halo 27, the seventh studio album by Nine Inch Nails
  • "Slip" (song), a 2013 song by Stooshe
  • "Slip", a song by Linkin Park from LP Underground 11
  • "Slip", a song by Shawn Austin from the 2022 EP Planes Don't Wait
  • "Slip", an instrumental by Deadmau5 from the 2008 album Random Album Title
  • "The Slip", a 2024 song by the Smile

Nickname

  • Slip Carr (1899–1971), Australian rugby union player and Olympic sprinter
  • Slip Madigan (1896–1966), American college football player and multi-sport college coach

Science and technology

Biology

  • Slip (fish), also known as Black Sole
  • Slip (horticulture), a small cutting of a plant as a specimen or for grafting
  • Muscle slip, a branching of a muscle, in anatomy

Computing and telecommunications

  • SLIP (programming language), (Symmetric LIst Processing language)
  • Slip (telecommunication), a positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols
  • Serial Line Internet Protocol, a mostly obsolete encapsulation of the Internet Protocol

Earth science

  • Silicic-dominated Large Igneous Province (SLIP), a geological feature consisting of a large area of igneous rocks of a certain type
  • Slip, the relative movement of geological features present on either side of a fault plane
  • Land slip or landslide, commonly called a slip in New Zealand

Materials

  • Slip (ceramics), an aqueous suspension of minerals
  • Slip (materials science), the process by which a dislocation motion produces plastic deformation

Mechanical systems

  • Slip (vehicle dynamics), the relative motion between a tire and the road surface
  • Slip (electrical motor), the difference in speed between the frequency supplied to an induction motor and rotor shaft speed
  • Slip, a type of rail switch
  • Slip gauge or gauge block, a system for producing precision lengths

Psychology

  • Slip (treatment), a temporary return to a negative behavior after therapy intended to correct that behavior
  • Freudian slip, an error in speech, memory or physical action that arises from the unconscious mind

Other uses in science and technology

  • Slip (aerodynamics), an aerodynamic state in which an aircraft is moving sideways as well as forward relative to the oncoming airflow
  • Slipway, a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water

Television

  • "Slip" (Better Call Saul), an episode of Better Call Saul
  • Slip (TV series), an American comedy television series
  • "The Slip" (The Amazing World of Gumball), an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball

Other uses

  • Slip (cricket), a fielding position in cricket
  • Slip (needlework), an embroidered or appliquéd image of a plant-cutting
  • Slip opinion, a kind of judicial opinion, published on the day of the decision and subject to later revision
  • Ferry slip, a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat
  • Packing slip, a shipping document that accompanies delivery packages
  • The Slip, a section of Swansea Beach

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Slip
  • Slippage (disambiguation)
  • Slippery (disambiguation)
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