Slot
1. A computer processor connection designed to make upgrading the processor much easier, where the user would only have to slide a processor into a slot. The original slot, or Slot 1 (pictured below), was first released by the Intel Corporation in 1997 as a successor to the Socket 8. Later, AMD released another slot processor known as the Slot A in 1999. Both slots look similar but are not compatible. Later, Intel released the slot 2, which was a bigger slot used with the later versions of the Pentium II processors. Today, slot processors are no longer found in new computers and have been replaced by socket processors.
2. Another name for an expansion slot such as a ISA, PCI, AGP slot, or memory slots. See the motherboard definition for a visual example of all of these slots.
Also see: Bank, Memory definitions, Motherboard definitions, Processor definitions