# Variant Slot

> A facility that narrows a subject to one facet, occupying the segment between subject and concern and present only on collision or facet ambiguity.

Record: `lexicon:variant-slot`
Kind: mechanism
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-variant-slot

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Subject Slot](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/subject-slot.md) and before [Container Level](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/container-level.md).

## Category

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/taxonomy-classification-naming.md)

## Enabled by

- [Positional Slot Resolution](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/positional-slot-resolution.md)

## Required by

- [Sideways Overflow](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/sideways-overflow.md)
- [Collision Consolidation](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/collision-consolidation.md)
- [Externally Resolved Slot](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/externally-resolved-slot.md)

## Linked from

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-taxonomy-classification-naming.md)