slot

Meaning

1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
2. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
3. An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.

groove

train path

coin machine

foot-print

rima

slot-machine

receiving window

space character

raphe

thumbhole

hoof-mark

driving slot

groove joint

holding tank

slot wedge

hoof-print

magazine slot

time quantum

plane-of-weakness joint

tiar

areola

ark

automated teller machine

foot-mark

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slɒt/

From Middle English slot, from Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną (“to lock”). Cognate with German Schloss (“door-bolt”), Dutch slot. The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)).