channel

Definitions

• The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
• The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
• The navigable part of a river.
• A narrow body of water between two land masses.
• Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
• A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
• (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
• (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
• (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
• (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
• (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
• (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
• (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
• (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
• (storage) 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.
• (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
• (business) A distribution channel
• (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
• (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
• A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.