A narrow depression or perforation; especially one for receiving a piece fitting or sliding into it. (slang) A position or period of time within a schedule, sequence, or series: a 2 p.m. slot.
A position in a game of chess, poker, or other card games; a place at a table.
In computing, a location in memory or on disk in which data can be stored. Also called a “slot.” (computing) A space in a file system where data can be stored, either physically or virtually. A “slot” is also a piece of memory that can be accessed by a program at runtime, or at any time during its execution.
The naming convention for slots is very loose. The names can be a word or a number, and the word can refer to a physical location in memory or on disk, or to an allocation of CPU cycles or resources. In some cases, the word slot can also be used to describe a set of parameters that define an object’s behavior, such as an array’s dimensions or its indexing scheme.
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially a place for receiving a piece fitting or sliding into the same; a crevice. (slang, informal) The track of an animal, particularly a deer; a spoor. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a crevasse.
The slot in the table allows you to securely mount components and structures that can’t be held by standard grips to the machine. Commercially available T-slot nuts can be inserted into the inverted T-slots on the table, and bolts, studs, or threaded rods can then be inserted into the nuts. The bolts can then be tightened to secure the specimens in place for tensile, compression and flexural tests.
Whenever capacity demands change in the dynamic DAG of an executing query, BigQuery automatically re-evaluates slot availability across all queries and re-allocates or pauses queries accordingly. In addition, slots that have been consumed by a query can be preempted by other requests from the same reservation in order to reduce future delays and limit slot cost variability and tail latency.
For more information, see the Slot documentation. The ignore_idle_slots option is the best practice for maximizing the use of idle slots for your reservation. This setting enables you to share idle slots with other reservations in your project as long as they are of the same edition and have the same autoscaling options. You can enable or disable this option using the ignore_idle_slots setting in the project settings. For example, a project with a reservation of type ML_EXTERNAL can share its idle slots with a reservation that is of the same type but has no autoscaling, such as a default reservation. You can also enable or disable this setting on a per-reservation basis. However, a reservation that has a combination of assignment types (ML_EXTERNAL and QUERY) cannot share its idle slots with other assignments of different editions.