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Channel, Channels, and similar terms may refer to:
Geography
- Channel (geography), in physical geography, the physical confine of a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks
- Stream channel, a hydrologic scientific term for physical confine of a stream (river) consisting of stream bed and stream banks
In Europe:
- English Channel, the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France
- Channel Tunnel, or the Chunnel, a rail tunnel underneath the English Channel linking the U.K. and France
- Channel Islands, an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy
In North America:
- Channel Islands of California, a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California
- Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Channel Lake, Illinois
- Channel, California, a former settlement in Butte County, California, United States.
- Channel Home Centers, a defunct home improvement chain based in the northeastern United States
In Australia:
- Channel Highway, a regional highway in Tasmania, Australia
- Channel Express, a defunct British airline
Business
- Distribution channel, a chain of intermediaries, each passing the product down the chain to the next organization, before it finally reaches the consumer
- Marketing channel, set of activities necessary to transfer the ownership of goods from the point of production to the point of consumption
Technology
- Communication channel, a transmission medium, e.g. a wire, or a multiplexed connection, e.g. a radio channel, used to convey an information signal from a sender to a receiver,
- Channel (digital image), the grayscale representation of a primary color in a digital image
- Channel (programming), in computer science, a tool used for interprocess communication
- Television channel, a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart
Channel Geographical term, different heights in a river or a stream
Fiction
- Channeler (The Wheel of Time), fictional characters in the Wheel of Time fantasy book series by Robert Jordan
- Channeling (Rolemaster), in the Rolemaster role-playing game
Sport
- Channel (football), football (soccer) terminology for particular areas of the pitch
- Channel Football Club, an Australian rules football club in Tasmania
Other
- Channels (band), a rock band fronted by ex-Jawbox singer/guitarist J. Robbins
- Ion channel, a protein that allows ion flow through a cell membrane
- Mediumship (also known as channelling) communication with spirits
- Meridian (Chinese medicine) (or channel), a concept central to traditional Chinese medical techniques such as acupuncture, and to martial arts such as tai chi and qigong
- Legal channeling, the act of legally making one entity responsible for an event, and thereby dismissing other parties from liability for an event
See also
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