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channel Noun

— The bottom and sides ("banks") of a river or other place where water moves. — The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water. — The part of a river where boats can pass. We have to keep our boat in the channel. — A narrow body of water between two land masses. The English Channel lies between France and England. — The part that connects a data source to a data sink. A channel stretches between them. — A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals. We are using one of the 24 channels. — A path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable. The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs. — A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing. Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line. — A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement. KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle. — A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television. NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose. — 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. This chip in this disk drive is the channel device. — The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up. The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

channel Verb

— If you channel something, you direct its flow. We will channel the cars to the left. — To take on the personality of another person. When it is my turn to sing Karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.