Slant

Slant can refer to:

  • Bias or other non-objectivity in journalism, politics, academia or other fields
  • Slant height, is the distance from any point on the circle to the apex of a right circular cone
  • A growth medium such as agar set in an inclined glass tube for growing microbiological cultures.
  • Slant range, in telecommunications, the line-of-sight distance between two points which are not at the same level
  • Slant drilling (or Directional drilling), the practice of drilling non-vertical wells
  • Slant Four, a type of car engine
  • Triumph Slant-4 engine, an engine developed by Triumph
  • Chrysler Slant-6 engine, one Chrysler's automobile engine
  • Slant (route), an American football play pattern.
  • slant (handwriting), an attribute of Western handwriting
  • Slant (journal), a Catholic journal
  • The Slant, a student humor magazine at Vanderbilt University
  • / (or Slant), a book by science fiction writer Greg Bear
  • Slant Six Games, a video game developer founded in 2005
  • Slant Magazine, a film, TV, and music review website
  • Slant (fanzine), a fanzine by Walt Willis, winner of the 1954 Retrospective Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
  • Slant 6, an all-female punk rock trio based in Washington, D.C.
  • The Slants, an Asian dance/ rock group from Portland, Oregon
  • A racial slur for people of Asian descent, in reference to the shape of their eyes.
  • Piccadilly Slant-Abraham's Cove, a designated place in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador


Famous quotes containing the word slant:

    There’s a certain Slant of light,
    Winter Afternoons—
    That oppresses, like the Heft
    Of Cathedral Tunes—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    There’s a certain Slant of light,
    Winter Afternoons—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    I saw on the slant hill a putrid lamb,
    Propped with daisies.
    Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)