Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it. · A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence. · Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”). · The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture). · To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence). · To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining. · To put something where it belongs.
From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.
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