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slack

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slack1
1. 
a. a patch of water without current
b. a slackening of a current
2. Prosody (in sprung rhythm) the unstressed syllable or syllables
slack2
small pieces of coal with a high ash content
slack [slak]
(engineering)
Looseness or play in a mechanism, as the play in the trigger of a small-arms weapon.
(geology)
A hollow or depression between lines of shore dunes or in a sandbank or mudbank on a shore.
1.(operating system)slack - Internal fragmentation. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information.
2.(jargon)slack - In the theology of the Church of the SubGenius, a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of all human happiness.

Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that "Unix has no slack".

See ha ha only serious.


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A HUNTER who had lassoed a Bear was trying to disengage himself from the rope, but the slip-knot about his wrist would not yield, for the Bear was all the time pulling in the slack with his paws.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
That would often be ten or eleven o'clock, which was bad enough, in all conscience; but now, in the slack season, they would perhaps not have a thing for their men to do till late in the afternoon.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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