A narrow opening, especially a slit or groove, for receiving something, such as a coin or letter. Also called sloth (see below). 1. A place or position. 2. An assignment or job opening, especially at a newspaper or other media organization: He was given the slot as chief copy editor.
3. In sports: An unmarked area in front of the goal between the face-off circles on an ice hockey rink.
4. A compartment or area in a piece of furniture: The desk has plenty of slots for storing papers and books.
5. A slit or other narrow opening, especially one for receiving something, such as a coin. Also called sloth (see below).
6. Linguistics: A position having a specific grammatical function within a construction into which any one of a set of morphemes or morpheme sequences can fit. Compare filler, spot (def 2), and hole (def 1).
A slot is a dynamic placeholder that either waits for content to be added to it (passive) or calls out for it using a scenario (active). Slots are used in conjunction with renderers to deliver content to offer management panels. It is not recommended that you use more than one scenario to feed a slot, as this could have unpredictable results. This is discussed in the Using Slots chapter of the Personalization Programming Guide. A slot can contain a combination of different types of content, but it is not possible to feed the same type of content into more than one slot.