what is slat
slat. 1. a long, narrow strip of wood, metal, or the like used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc. 2. slats, Slang. a. the ribs. b. the buttocks. 3. to furnish or make with slats.
Second-level address translation (SLAT) is a hardware virtualization technology that reduces hypervisor overhead. To do so, SLAT addresses the inefficiencies associated with looking up virtualized memory addresses in software shadow volumes.