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:
“Theres a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“Theres a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“I saw on the slant hill a putrid lamb,
Propped with daisies.”
—Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)