For channel we have terms and definitions in 40 topics. The topics are Aquaculture, Bluetooth, Boating, Bowling, Car Audio, Casino Surveillance, Cellular, Charles Dickens, Coal Power, Computer Technology, Computer Virus, Concert Lighting, DVD, DVD and CD, Dolby, Drugs, Fish, Food, Furniture, HDTV, Ham Radio, Hard Drive Recovery, Health Informatics, Home Audio, Home Theater, Hunting, Image Editing, Import Cars, Interactive Marketing, Lighting, Nature, Photography, Public Speaking, RAID Drive Recovery, RSS, Soccer, Surf, Technology, Telco and Tires.

Channel (Aquaculture)

The deepest part of a stream or harbor, where most of the water flows.

Channel (Bluetooth)

A logical connection on the L2CAP level between two devices serving a single application or higher layer protocol.

Channel (Boating)

1) A radio frequency. 2) An area of navigable water, often marked by aids to navigation. A channel marker is a buoy or other aid to navigation indicating the safe channel. A shipping channel (shipping lane) is an especially deep channel specified for commercial vessels. It may have a traffic separation scheme.

Channel (Bowling)

Depression approximately 9.5 inches wide to the right and the left of the lane to guide the ball to the pit should it leave the playing surface. (gutter)

Channel (Car Audio)

One half of the electrical and acoustical requirement for a basic stereo system. When two channels are reproduced correctly, the stereo effect will reproduce images across a soundstage. (e.g., Hey Howard, one channel of my system is out.)

Channel (Casino Surveillance)

Another term for a camera, as in, "What channel is he on?"

Channel (Cellular)

An electrical, electromagnetic, or optical path for communication between two points.

Channel (Charles Dickens)

The English Channel. (A Tale of Two Cities)

Channel (Coal Power)

Like it sounds, a channel in which prices are moving. Parallel trendlines are drawn along the lows and highs of a price chart, forming a channel in which prices move. The trendlines form areas of support and resistance. Depending on the trend, the channel can be a downchannel or an upchannel.

Channel (Computer Technology)

The term channel is often used interchangeably with the word transponder with the same meaning. However, the word channel refers more accurately to the absolute frequency range over which the transponder operates (e.g. 11 GHz +/- 18 MHz), rather than to the amplification process itself. A channel is normally defined by its centre frequency and its usable bandwidth.

Channel (Computer Virus)

In communications, a medium for transferring information, which is also called a line or circuit. Depending on its type, a communications channel can carry information in analog or digital form. A communications channel can be a physical link, such as a cable that connects two stations in a network, or it can consist of some electromagnetic transmission.

Channel (Concert Lighting)

See Also: Control Channel

Channel (DVD)

A part of an audio track. Typically there is one channel allocated for each loudspeaker.

Channel (DVD and CD)

A part of an audio track. Typically there is one channel allocated for each loudspeaker.

Channel (Dolby)

In communications, any pathway between two devices (e.g. computers, multiplexers). The channel may refer to the physical medium (e.g. coaxial cable) or to a specific carrier frequency (subchannel) within a larger channel. Within the ISDN BRI format there are two B channels.An independently processed or recorded audio signal.

Channel (Drugs)

Vein into which a drug is injected

Channel (Fish)

An area that contains continuously or periodically flowing water that is confined by banks and a stream bed.

Channel (Food)

To create small V-shaped grooves over the surface of fruits or vegetables for decorative purposes using a canelle knife. The fruit or vegetable is then sliced, creating a decorative border on the slices.

Channel (Furniture)

1) Groove or fluting cut into a surface as a decorative accent.
2) In upholstery, term applied to vertical tufting.

Channel (HDTV)

A 6 MHz (bandwidth) section of broadcasting spectrum allocated for one analog NTSC transmission.

Channel (Ham Radio)

(Repeater Term) the pair of frequencies (input and output) used by a repeater.

Channel (Hard Drive Recovery)

A connection or socket on the motherboard or controller card. A motherboard may have one or two channels (primary and secondary). If your motherboard has only one channel, you may need to add a controller card to create a secondary channel.

Channel (Health Informatics)

Th connectio betwee tw partie tha transport thei messages suc a telephon o e-mail.

Channel (Home Audio)

A designated audio signal path, generally terminating at the loudspeaker.

Channel (Home Theater)

In components and systems, a channel is a separate signal path. A four-channel amplifier has at least four separate inputs and four separate outputs.

Channel (Hunting)

(1) A natural or artificial waterway of perceptible extent which either periodically or continuously contains moving water, or which forms a connecting link between two bodies of water. (2) The part of a body of water deep enough to be used for navigation through an area otherwise too shallow for navigation. (3) The deepest portion of a stream, bay, or strait through which the main volume of current of water flows. (4) An open conduit for water either naturally or artificially created, but does not include artificially created irrigation, return flow or stockwatering channels.

Channel (Image Editing)

A part of an image in Adobe Photoshop. An RGB image has three channels, CMYK has four and line-art has one. The user can perform edits on individuals. Additional channels can be created to contain masks, type, patterns, or other images. These additional channels can be combined with the main image or used for special effects.

Channel (Import Cars)

1. To lower the body over the chassis. 2. Individual leg of the hydraulic system that relay pressure from the master cylinder to the wheel cylinder.

Channel (Interactive Marketing)

1) a band of similar content; 2) a type of sales outlet (also known as channel of distribution), for example retail, catalogue, or e-commerce.

Channel (Lighting)

In dimming controls, a group of fixtures that are operated together, generally of the same type or for the same function.

Channel (Nature)

The bed or deepest part of a stream or river

Channel (Photography)

Photoshop uses the term Channels to describes black and white and colour image data. In Photoshop, one channel id typically defined as having up to eight bits of grayscale image information. Continuous tone images created with a scanner use channels as a way to describe the black and white and colour image data. A black and white grayscale image has one channel. An RGB colour image has three channels. A CMYK colour image has four channels. It is possible to have up to 24 channels in photoshop.

Channel (Public Speaking)

The means by which a message is communicated.

Channel (RAID Drive Recovery)

A connection or socket on the motherboard or controller card. A motherboard may have one or two channels (primary and secondary). If your motherboard has only one channel, you may need to add a controller card to create a secondary channel.

Channel (RSS)

Often used interchangeably with "feed". Each RSS channel can contain up to 15 items. These items can be articles, blog entries or virtually any kind of document found on the World Wide Web. An RSS channel is the Internet equivalent of a radio station or TV channel, broadcasting news and information to anyone who wants to receive it.

Channel (Soccer)

(1) (as a verb) to guide, drive, or force a dribbler to the outside or another location more advantageous to the defense; (2) (as a noun) an imaginary alley or lane running lengthwise through the field to which a player confines him/herself

Channel (Surf)

Bottom shape dating back to 1970, credited to Jim Pollard of Australia, in which grooves are cut lengthwise along the surfboard, usually through the tail half. Many different types of channels have a variety of effects on performance; generally they add drive and direction to turns, especially in the most common modern variation, the six-channel "clinker" bottom.

Channel (Technology)

1. A path or link through which information passes between two devices. A channel can be either internal or external to a microcomputer. See also bus. 2. In communications, a medium for transferring information. Depending on its type, a communications channel can carry information (data, sound, and/or video) in either analog or digital form. A communications channel can be a physical link, such as the cable connecting two stations in a network, or it can consist of some electromagnetic transmission on one or more frequencies within a bandwidth in the electromagnetic spectrum, as in radio and television, or in optical, microwave, or voice-grade communication. Also called circuit, line. See also analog, band, bandwidth, digital (definition 2), electromagnetic spectrum, frequency. 3. A push technology that allows users to subscribe to a Web site to browse offline, automatically display updated pages on their screen savers, and download or receive notifications when pages in the Web site are modified. Channels are available only in browsers that support channel definitions, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0. See also Channel Definition Format.

Channel (Telco)

An actual path you can talk or send data over. This is what you are paying the phone company for. For instance, ISDN BRI lines can be ordered with 1 or 2 active channels and these channels can be configured for voice calls (CSV), data calls (CSD) or both (alternate CSD CSV). A channel does not necessarily have it’s own unique telephone number. See ISDN.

Channel (Tires)

See 'GROOVE'.

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