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the single cut that turns a whole into a piece worth fighting over
means To cut something cleanly into thin or flat pieces, or one such piece carved off from a larger whole.
from From Old French 'esclice,' a splinter or thin piece, drawn from the verb 'esclicier,' to splinter or shatter — itself rooted in a Germanic word for splitting, a cousin of words like 'slit' and 'split.' The blade-edge sense was there from the start: 'slice' was always about the clean break, not the messy tear.
- golf curse
- a slice sends the ball spinning hopelessly rightward
- tennis weapon
- backspin keeps the ball low and skidding
- pizza geometry
- one pie, infinite arguments over the bigger slice
- data slang
- programmers slice arrays to grab exact ranges
- cake science
- the first cut releases tension across the whole layer
pizza slice — standard triangular portion cut at approximately 60 degrees from a circular pizza
salami slice — thin round piece cut from cured pork sausage, typically 2-3mm thick
bread slice — flat piece cut parallel from a loaf, standard thickness 12-19mm in commercial slicing