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What does channel mean?

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Noun
  1. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
  2. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
  3. The navigable part of a river.
  4. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
  5. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
  6. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
  7. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
  8. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
  9. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
  10. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
  11. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
  12. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
  13. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
  14. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
  15. (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.
  16. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
  17. (business, marketing) A distribution channel
  18. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
  19. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
  20. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
  2. (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
  3. (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
  4. (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
Noun
  1. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
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