Slice
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Food

  • A portion of bread, pizza, cake, or meat that is cut flat and thin, cf. sliced bread
    Sliced bread
    Sliced bread is a loaf of bread which has been pre-sliced and packaged for convenience. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped." This led to the popular phrase, "the greatest thing since sliced bread".- History :Otto...

  • Slice (soft drink)
    Slice (soft drink)
    Slice is a line of fruit-flavored soft drinks manufactured by PepsiCo and introduced in 1984, with the lemon-lime flavor replacing Teem.Varieties of Slice have included apple, fruit punch, grape, passionfruit, peach glaze, Mandarin orange, pineapple, strawberry, Cherry Cola, "Red", Cherry-Lime, and...

    , a line of fruit-flavored drinks
  • Vanilla slice, a dessert
  • Mr. Slice, the mascot of Papa John's Pizza
    Papa John's Pizza
    Papa John's Pizza is the third largest take-out and delivery pizza restaurant chain in the United States, behind Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza. It is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Papa John's slogan is "Better Ingredients. Better pizza. Papa John's"...

     restaurant
  • A colloquial name for sliced sausage
    Sliced sausage
    Sliced sausage, also known as Lorne sausage, flat sausage, square sausage or slice, it can also be referred to as slab as opposed to link, is a food product most often eaten in Scotland. Sausage meat – which may be pork or beef – is set into a square and sliced into pieces generally about square...

  • A typical Australian dessert (e.g. Chocolate Slice, Muesli Slice, Weet-bix Slice, Hedgehog slice
    Hedgehog slice
    A hedgehog slice is a flat square or bar, similar to a fudgey chocolate brownie but with alternating lighter and darker areas on the inside. It is widely available in cafes in the state of Victoria, Australia, and less so in other parts of Australia....

    , Coconut Slice)

Sports

  • Backspin
    Backspin
    In racquet sports, backspin , is a shot such that the ball rotates backwards after it is hit. The trajectory of the shot involves an upward force that lifts the ball...

    , or "slice" in racquet sport
    Racquet sport
    Racquet sports are those where players use racquets to hit a ball or other object.-List of racquet sports:* Badminton* Ball badminton* Basque pelota** Frontenis** Jai alai* Beach tennis** Matkot* Bilbocatch* Frescoball* Lacrosse...

    s; also known as "slice" or "underspin" in golf
  • Kimbo Slice
    Kimbo Slice
    Kevin Ferguson , better known as Kimbo Slice, is a Bahamian-American boxer, mixed martial artist and occasional actor...

     (1974– ), a street fighter
  • SliCe
    Slice
    -Food:* A portion of bread, pizza, cake, or meat that is cut flat and thin, cf. sliced bread* Slice , a line of fruit-flavored drinks* Vanilla slice, a dessert* Mr. Slice, the mascot of Papa John's Pizza restaurant...

     - Streetballer

Media

  • Slice (TV channel), a Canadian TV channel formerly known as Life Network
  • Slice of SciFi
    Slice of SciFi
    Slice of SciFi is a podcast and website and part of the FarPoint Media Network that looks into the world of science fiction, fantasy and horror...

    , a podcast and website about science fiction, fantasy, and horror

Fiction

  • Slice (2010 film), a 2010 Thai horror film
  • Slice (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Slice of life story, a genre of fiction writing
  • A Slice of Life (1914 film), a 1914 silent film
  • A Slice of Life (1954 film)
    A Slice of Life (1954 film)
    A Slice of Life is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and Paul Paviot.-Cast:* Vittorio De Sica - Count Ferdinando * Elisa Cegani - Mrs...

    , a 1954 Italian-French film
  • A Slice of Life (short story)
    A Slice of Life (short story)
    "A Slice of Life" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in 1926 in Strand Magazine, and appeared almost simultaneously in Liberty in the United States. It also appears in the collection Meet Mr. Mulliner...

    , a short story by P. G. Wodehouse
  • "A Slice at a Time
    A Slice at a Time
    "A Slice at a Time" is a science fiction short story by author Karen Traviss. The story, which was published in July 2002 in Asimov's Science Fiction, describes human culture interacting with alien culture. The story was given an honourable mention in the book Year's Best Science Fiction #20....

    ", a 2002 science fiction short story
  • In Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett
    Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...

    's Discworld
    Discworld
    Discworld is a comic fantasy book series by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin. The books frequently parody, or at least take inspiration from, J. R. R....

     stories, there is a region near Lancre known as Slice, which is the proverbial place "where the sun don't shine."
  • Warriors (novel series), by Erin Hunter. Slice was a minor female character.

Mathematics

  • Slice category, in category theory
  • Slice genus
    Slice genus
    In mathematics, the slice genus of a smooth knot K in S3 is the least integer g such that K is the boundary of a connected, orientable 2-manifold S of genus g embedded in the 4-ball D4 bounded by S3.More precisely, if S is required to be smoothly embedded, then this integer g is the...

    , in knot theory
  • Slice knot, in knot theory
  • Slice sampling
    Slice sampling
    Slice sampling is a type of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for pseudo-random number sampling, i.e. for drawing random samples from a statistical distribution...

    , a Monte Carlo sampling method
  • Projection-slice theorem
    Projection-slice theorem
    In mathematics, the projection-slice theorem or Fourier slice theorem in two dimensions states that the results of the following two calculations are equal:...

    , a theorem about Fourier transforms

Music

  • Slice (Arthur Loves Plastic album), a 1998 album by Arthur Loves Plastic
    Arthur Loves Plastic
    Arthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of Washington, D.C. based electronic music recording artist Bev Stanton.- Biography :...

  • Slice (Five for Fighting album)
    Slice (Five for Fighting album)
    Slice is the fifth studio album by Five for Fighting, the stage name of American singer-songwriter John Ondrasik, released on October 13, 2009 by Aware Records and Wind-Up Records, his first album with WU...

    , a 2009 album by Five for Fighting
    Five for Fighting
    Five for Fighting is the stage name of American singer-songwriter John Ondrasik. He is best known for his piano-based rock, such as the Top 40 songs "Superman " , "100 Years" , and "The Riddle" .-Early years:...

  • Slice of Doom 1999–2002, an album by Reverend Bizarre
    Reverend Bizarre
    Reverend Bizarre was a doom metal band from Finland. They played slow and heavy traditional doom with dramatic vocals, following in the footsteps of bands such as Saint Vitus, Pentagram and Black Sabbath....

  • "Slice of Heaven
    Slice of Heaven
    "Slice of Heaven" is a single by New Zealand singer/songwriter Dave Dobbyn with the band Herbs, released in 1986 on the soundtrack of the animated motion picture, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale. The single charted at No. 1 in New Zealand...

    ", a 1986 single by Dave Dobbyn and Herbs

Computing

  • Time slice, the time during which a process runs
  • Time slice multiplexing, a form of processor scheduling
  • Slice (disk)
    Slice (disk)
    In Sun Microsystems' Solaris computer operating system, disk partitions are sometimes known as slices. This is a conceptual reference to the slicing of a cake into several pieces...

    , a logical division or partition
    Disk partitioning
    Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks. Partitions are also termed "slices" for operating systems based on BSD, Solaris or GNU Hurd...

     of a hard disk
  • Array slicing
    Array slicing
    In computer programming, array slicing is an operation that extracts certain elements from an array and packages them as another array, possibly with different number of indices and different index ranges. Two common examples are extracting a substring from a string of characters In computer...

    , an operation that extracts certain elements from an array
  • Bit slicing
    Bit slicing
    Bit slicing is a technique for constructing a processor from modules of smaller bit width. Each of these components processes one bit field or "slice" of an operand...

    , a technique for constructing a processor from modules of smaller bit width

Biology

  • Slice preparation
    Slice preparation
    The slice preparation or brain slice is a laboratory technique in electrophysiology that allows the study of a synapse or neural circuit in isolation from the rest of the brain, in controlled physiological conditions. It involves stimulating and/or recording from a slice of brain tissue immersed in...

     or brain slice, an in vitro
    In vitro
    In vitro refers to studies in experimental biology that are conducted using components of an organism that have been isolated from their usual biological context in order to permit a more detailed or more convenient analysis than can be done with whole organisms. Colloquially, these experiments...

     technique for neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology
    Neurophysiology is a part of physiology. Neurophysiology is the study of nervous system function...

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