Channel
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Channel or channels may refer to:
Places
- Channel (geography), in physical geography, a landform consisting of the outline of the path of a narrow body of water
- Stream channel, the physical confine of a stream, including bed and banks
Australia
- Channel Country, region of outback Australia in Queensland and partly in South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales
- Channel Highway, a regional highway in Tasmania, Australia
Europe
- English Channel, the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France
- Channel Islands, an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy
North America
- Channel, California, a former settlement in Butte County, California, United States
- Channel Islands of California, a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California
- Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town on Newfoundland island, Canada
- Channel Lake, Illinois, a census-designated place in Lake County, Illinois, United States
- Channels State Forest, a state forest in Virginia, United States
Other places
- Channel Glacier, a glacier in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
- Channel Rock (disambiguation), various rocks
In arts and entertainment
- Pre-chorus, part of a song structure of popular music
- Channels (band), fronted by former Jawbox singer/guitarist J. Robbins
- Channels (film), a 2008 film
- Channels TV, a Nigerian television news network
- Channeler (The Wheel of Time), fictional characters in the Wheel of Time fantasy book series by Robert Jordan
- Channeling (Rolemaster), a magic element in the Rolemaster role-playing game
In business
- Channel (chart pattern), a pair of parallel trend lines that form a chart pattern for a stock or commodity
- Channel Express, a defunct British airline
- Channel Home Centers, a defunct home improvement chain based in the northeastern United States
- Distribution channel, a chain of intermediaries, each passing the product down the chain to the next organization, before it finally reaches the consumer
- Marketing channel, set of activities necessary to transfer the ownership of goods from the point of production to the point of consumption
In science and technology
In communications
- Channel (communications), a transmission medium used to convey information
- Channel (broadcasting), a range of frequencies assigned for the operation of a television, radio, or other broadcast station
- Television channel, a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart
- Channel (digital image), the grayscale representation of a primary color in a digital image
- Channel (programming), in computer science, a tool used for interprocess communication
- Audio channel, a communications channel in a storage device used in operations such as multitrack recording and playback
- Channel I/O, in computing, a high-performance input/output (I/O) architecture
- A video blog hosted by a video-sharing website
- Channel (broadcasting), a range of frequencies assigned for the operation of a television, radio, or other broadcast station
Other uses in science and technology
- Channel (semiconductor), a part of the structure of a field-effect transistor
- Ion channel, a protein that allows ion flow through a cell membrane
- Scattering channel, a concept in quantum mechanics
- Strut channel, a standardized formed structural system used in the construction and electrical industries
Other uses
- Channel (association football), football (soccer) terminology for particular areas of the pitch
- Legal channeling, the act of legally making one entity responsible for an event, and thereby dismissing other parties from liability
- Channel Football Club, an Australian rules football club in Tasmania
- Meridian (Chinese medicine), a concept central to traditional Chinese medical techniques such as acupuncture, and to martial arts such as tai chi and qigong
- Mediumship or channelling, communication with spirits
See also
- Canal, man-made channels for water
- Canal (disambiguation)
- Chanel (disambiguation)
- Channeling (disambiguation)
- Channel Tunnel or Chunnel, a rail tunnel underneath the English Channel
- Channel catfish, catfish species in North America
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