freo

Phonetic: "/ˈtʃænəl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.

Example: The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.

Definition: The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

Example: A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.

Definition: The navigable part of a river.

Example: We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

Definition: A narrow body of water between two land masses.

Example: The English Channel lies between France and England.

Definition: Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.

Example: The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

Definition: A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

Definition: A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

Example: The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.

Definition: The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.

Definition: (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

Example: A channel stretches between them.

Definition: (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

Example: We are using one of the 24 channels.

Definition: (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

Example: The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.

Definition: (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

Example: Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.

Definition: A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

Example: KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.

Definition: A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.

Example: NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

Definition: (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.

Example: This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.

Definition: (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

Example: The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

Definition: A distribution channel

Definition: A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.

Definition: An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.

Definition: A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.