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Slab (geometry)

In geometry, a slab is a region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.

Set definition

A slab can also be defined as a set of points:

where is the normal vector of the planes and .

Or, if the slab is centered around the origin:

where is the thickness of the slab.

See also

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