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Definition channel

Etymology 1

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin can?lis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

Noun

channel (plural channels)

1. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
2. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
3. The navigable part of a river.
4. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
5. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
6. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
7. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
8. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
9. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
10. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
11. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
12. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
13. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
14. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
15. (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.
16. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
17. (business, marketing) A distribution channel
18. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
19. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
20. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channeling or channelling, simple past and past participle channelled or channeled)

1. (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
2. (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
3. (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
4. (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

Etymology 3

From chainwale.

Noun

channel (plural channels)

1. (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.

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