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kanava

Pronunciation: /ˈkɑnɑʋɑ/

“kanava” is a Finnish word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. canal (artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation)
  2. duct, canal (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
  3. channel (specific radio frequency or band of frequencies for transmitting a radio or television broadcast)
  4. channel (individual time series of an audio signal)
  5. channel (connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit)
  6. channel (part that connects a data source to a data sink; path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals; single path provided by a transmission medium)
  7. channel (portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head)
  8. channel (on a chat room)
  9. channel, medium (something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кана́ва (kanáva). Doublet of kanaali. Further etymology * Russian кана́ва (kanáva) from Polish kanał, from Italian canale, from Latin canalis. * According to SSA, the word was first used in the eastern Finnish dialects, and its wider adoption in Standard Finnish may have been inspired by media coverage of the Saimaa Canal, when it was under construction (1844–1855),…

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