A slot is a rectangular area in ice hockey. In the game, the slot extends toward the blue line. It is also the fourth position in the flying display. The word slot is related to the Latin verb sleutana, which means “to cut”. The sense of “drop a coin in a slot” comes from 1888. Its usage as a verb in sport dates back to the 1940s. The word slot has several other meanings, including position, taking, and fitting. It is now obsolete. A hockey player’s slot is the space between the face-off circles, sometimes referred to as the scoring area.

A slot consists of a data path and operation issue machinery. In the VLIW world, a slot is a logical place where a single morpheme fits into another one. Its use is widespread. It is also an acronym for an open position in a copy desk. A chief copy editor occupies a slot in a newspaper. A slot in a plane’s interior is a position authorized by the air traffic authority or an airport.

A single utterance can include several slots or none of them at all. The bot automatically identifies slots and maps them to entities. Built-in slots, such as the “number of rooms” or “nights” slots, can be mapped to custom slot types. Other custom slots can be created by specifying their type and size. A slot can also be used to mark locations. When a slot is used in a conversation, it may be assigned a custom name to indicate its location.