Channel

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Channel may refer to:

[edit] Waterway

• Channel (geography), the course traveled by a body of water: (a) between land masses or (b) as a river or slough
  • English Channel, the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France
  • Channel, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

[edit] Other

• Channel, California, former town in Butte County
• Channel, also known as "Meridian", common name of vessel and collaterals in acupuncture
• Channel (communications), the route through which a message is sent
• 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 (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
• Channel (programming), a means for inter-process communication
• 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
• Transistor channel, a conducting area between two terminals of a semiconductor device

Channelling may also refer to:

• Mediumship, through which disembodied spirits allegedly speak
• Channeler (The Wheel of Time), people who can wield the One Power in the fantasy series by Robert Jordan
• Channeling (Rolemaster), int the Rolemaster role-playing game

Channels may also refer to:

• Channels (band), a rock band fronted by ex-Jawbox singer/guitarist J. Robbins

[edit] See also

• Canal
• Chanel

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