Channel

Channel

A channel is a narrow deep waterway connecting two larger bodies of water; the deepest part of the waterway.

Channel may also refer to:

Channel (geography), a natural or man-made waterway used for leisure or to transport freight
English Channel, the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France
Channel, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Channel (Chinese medicine), also known as "Meridian", common name of vessel and collaterals
Channel (communications), the route which a message follows
Channel Home Centers, a now-defunct home improvement chain (similar to Home Depot) based in the northeast USA.
Channel (football), football (soccer) terminology for particular areas of the pitch.
Channel (geography), the course traveled by a body of water: (a) between land masses or (b) as a river or slough
Channel (digital image), the black and white representation of a specific color
Channel (marketing), the distribution "channel" for selling and delivering a product or service to a company's customers
Ion channel, a channel in a plasma membrane which helps certain ions to enter/exit a biological cell
other transport proteins or protein channels
Pulse Height Analyzer, channel, in physics and technology, one of several in a nuclear electronics instrument that analyzes electronic pulse heights into a spectrum for later study.
Scattering channel, in the quantum physics of scattering theory, a possible state of the colliding system.
Television channel, a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart
Active Channel, a website type which was introduced by Internet Explorer 4.0 in 1997
Stereophonic sound, 2 channel stereo; Quadraphonic sound, 4 channel stereo
Wii Menu, the channels-operated interface for the Wii console
Channel I/O, hardware used for Input/Output on mainframe computers.


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