A narrow notch, groove, or opening, such as a keyway in a piece of machinery or a slit for a coin in a vending machine. Also, a position in a group, series, sequence, etc.

Slots are dynamic placeholders that wait for or call out for content. They are controlled by either a scenario (using the Add Items to Slot action) or a renderer (using the Render Scenario property).

The word “slot” comes from the Latin sleutan, meaning to slip into a narrow place. The first recorded use of the word was in a 1530 sermon by Martin Luther, and it was later borrowed into English. It was included in the Oxford Dictionary of English Language in 1828 and in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in 1931.

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