A slit or other narrow opening, especially one for receiving something, such as a coin or letter. (From Middle Low German slot, from Middle High German schat, from Old French schat, from Late Latin scat, from Proto-German *schatta, from Proto-Germanic *schatta, from Latin scattu)
In computer science, a slot is an operation issue and data path machinery surrounding a set of one or more execution units. The term is common for dynamically scheduled machines, but it is also used to denote a specific operation in very long instruction word (VLIW) computers.
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