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channel

The English word “channel” has 26 meanings listed here.

  1. The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
  2. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
  3. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
  4. Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
  5. An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
  6. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
  7. A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
  8. A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
  9. The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
  10. The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
  11. A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
  12. A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
  13. A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
  14. A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
  15. A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
  16. The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
  17. The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
  18. A distribution channel.
  19. A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
  20. A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
  21. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
  22. To make or cut a channel or groove in.
  23. To direct or guide along a desired course.
  24. To serve as a medium for.
  25. To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
  26. The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
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