What's the difference between a Page and a Slide in Google Slides?

Question

The API for Google Slides has two classes:

• Slide
• Page

The documentation merely states "An X in a presentation" (where X is the class in question).

What's the difference conceptually? Is a page something you get when you are printing the presentation?

I see an "New Slide" function in the menu, but how does one use Pages in Google Slides?

Answer 1

This suggests that a Page can be a

• Slide,
• Layout or
• Master

And the description of the methods listed for Layout seem to support this idea.

But I have not seen any documentation say this specifically.