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      channel
      noun
      Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
      (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
      (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.
      (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
      (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
      (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
      (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.
      A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
      The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
      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.
      (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
      A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
      (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
      (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
      (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
      (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.
      The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
      (nautical) 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.
      A former village and district of Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
      (Europe) Ellipsis of English Channel: a strait in Europe, separating Great Britain from France and connecting the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. [The arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the British Isles from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.]
      (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
      verb
      (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
      (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
      (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
      (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
      Roots
      canalischannel- · Latin · pipe, channel
      Synonyms for channel
      canalnchannelizevcanalizevductntransmitvtelevisionnwatercoursenwaterwaynstreamncanalizationnradion
      Words related to channel
      multichanneladjrechannelchannelizationntidewaynbroadcastntelecasternradiobroadcastcablecasttelecastingntelevisorcolorcastnbroadcastersnanchorpersonncablevisionnrebroadcastingnstreambednanchorwomanntellynnewscasternairwavesnsimulcastntelevisevsluicewaynanchormanncablenstreamyadjnetworknretransmissionnnewsreadern

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