Channel

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A channel is a narrow deep waterway connecting two larger bodies of water; the deepest part of the waterway.

Channel may also refer to:

• Channel (geography), a natural or man-made waterway used for leisure or to transport freight
• English Channel, the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France
• Channel, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Channel (Chinese medicine), also known as "Meridian", common name of vessel and collaterals
• Channel (communications), the route which a message follows
• 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 (geography), the course traveled by a body of water: (a) between land masses or (b) as a river or slough
• 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
• 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.

Channelling may also refer to:

• Medium (spirituality), through which disembodied spirits 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