Slug (disambiguation)
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
Slug can mean:
- Slug: A Gastropod without or with a very small shell
- Slug (mass): An imperial unit of mass
- Slug (projectile): a projectile or bullet
- Slug (railroad): a type of railroad equipment that sometimes provides auxillary power to a locomotive.
- When talking about flows of fluids though a pipeline a slug is a discrete quantity of one fluid that flows though the line surrounded by another.
- Slugging is a form of loosely-organized ridesharing practiced in some large cities. Compare carpool.
- Slug is a rapper in hip hop music group Atmosphere
- A slug is the aggregate form of the slime mould Dictyostelid.
- Slug is sometimes used as a verb meaning "to hit".
- Slug is a short title for a story, usually not more than a word or two.
- In typesetting, a slug is a piece of typemetal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error (as by TeX).
- In television editing, a slug refers to a black screen
- In hydrogeology a slug test involves quickly changing the water level in a well, and monitoring its decay through time.
