Channel, channels, channeling, etc., may refer to:

Geography

Channel (geography) In physical geography, a channel is a type of landform consisting of the outline of a path of relatively shallow and narrow body of water or of other fluids (e.g., lava), most commonly the confine of a river, river delta or strait. The word is ...

, in physical geography, a landform consisting of the outline (banks) of the path of a narrow body of water.

Australia

Channel Country The Channel Country is a region of outback Australia mostly in the state of Queensland but also in parts of South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. The name comes from the numerous intertwined rivulets that cross the region ...

, region of outback Australia in Queensland and partly in South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. * Channel Highway, a regional highway in Tasmania, Australia.

Europe

Channel Islands The Channel Islands ( nrf, Îles d'la Manche; french: îles Anglo-Normandes or ''îles de la Manche'') are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, ...

, an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy *

Channel Tunnel The Channel Tunnel (french: Tunnel sous la Manche), also known as the Chunnel, is a railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England, UK) with Coquelles ( Hauts-de-France, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. ...

or Chunnel, a rail tunnel underneath the English Channel *

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, called simply "The Channel", the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France

North America

Channel Islands of California The Channel Islands () are an eight-island archipelago located within the Southern California Bight in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California. The four Northern Channel Islands are part of the Transverse Ranges geologic province, and ...

, a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California, United States *

Channel Lake, Illinois Channel Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Antioch Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 1,581. Geography Channel Lake is located in northwestern Lake Count ...

, a census-designated place in Lake County, Illinois, United States *

Channels State Forest Channels State Forest is a state forest located in Washington and Russell counties, Virginia. The Channels Natural Area Preserve is located within the forest, which protects the Great Channels of Virginia, comprising slot canyons formed within ...

, a state forest in Virginia, United States * Channel,

Channel-Port aux Basques Channel-Port aux Basques is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of Newfoundland fronting on the western end of the Cabot Strait. A Marine Atlantic ferry terminal is located in the town which is the primary entry point onto the island of Newfo ...

, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; a town district

Other places

Channel Glacier Channel Glacier () is a through glacier, , extending in an east-west direction across Wiencke Island, between Nipple Peak and Wall Range, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache 1897–99 ...

, a glacier in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica * Channel Rock (disambiguation), various rocks

Arts, entertainment, and media

Television

Channel Television ITV Channel Television, previously Channel Television, is a British television station which has served as the ITV contractor for the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey and broadcasts regional programme for insertion into the ...

, a division of British ITV *

Channels TV (Niger) Channels Television is a Nigerian independent 24-hour news and media television channel based in Lagos, Nigeria. The parent company, Channels Incorporated, was founded in 1992, a year before the Nigerian government deregulated the broadcast medi ...

A company of

Tele Sahel Tele may refer to: * Television * Tele (band), a German rock/pop band * Tele Ikuru, Deputy Governor of Rivers State * Télé, Mali, a rural commune of the Cercle of Goundam in the Tombouctou Region of Mali * Telemarketing * Telegraphy * ''Eveni ...

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Channeler (''The Wheel of Time''), fictional characters in the ''Wheel of Time'' fantasy book series by Robert Jordan *

Channeling (Rolemaster) ''Rolemaster'' (originally ''Role Master'') is a tabletop role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises since 1980. Editions ''Rolemaster'' has a total of four editions. First edition (RM1): 1980–1982 This edition includes the or ...

, a magic element in the Rolemaster role-playing game *

Channels (band) Channels is a rock band based in Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2003. The band features Jawbox and Burning Airlines frontman J. Robbins, as well as bassist Janet Morgan and drummer Darren Zentek of Kerosene 454 and Oswego. Channels features Mo ...

, fronted by former Jawbox singer/guitarist J. Robbins * ''Channels'' (film), a 2008 film *

Pre-chorus Song structure is the arrangement of a song, and is a part of the songwriting process. It is typically sectional, which uses repeating forms in songs. Common forms include bar form, 32-bar form, verse–chorus form, ternary form, strophic form, and ...

, or build or channel, part of a song structure of popular music

Science and technology

Communications

Communication channel A communication channel refers either to a physical transmission medium such as a wire, or to a logical connection over a multiplexed medium such as a radio channel in telecommunications and computer networking. A channel is used for informa ...

, a transmission medium used to convey information **

Audio channel An audio signal is a representation of sound, typically using either a changing level of electrical voltage Voltage, also known as electric pressure, electric tension, or (electric) potential difference, is the difference in electric poten ...

, a communications channel in a storage device used in operations such as multitrack recording and playback **

Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel or frequency channel is a designated radio frequency (or, equivalently, wavelength), frequency assignment, assigned by a competent frequency assignment authority for the operation of a particular Radio broadcasting, radi ...

, a range of frequencies assigned for the operation of a television, radio, or other broadcast station ***

Television channel A television channel is a terrestrial frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the terrestrial or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with ...

, a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart **

Channel (digital image) Color digital images are made of pixels, and pixels are made of combinations of primary colors represented by a series of code. A channel in this context is the grayscale image of the same size as a color image, made of just one of these primary co ...

, the grayscale representation of a primary color in a digital image **

Channel (programming) In computing, a channel is a model for interprocess communication and synchronization via message passing. A message may be sent over a channel, and another process or thread is able to receive messages sent over a channel it has a reference to, a ...

, in computer science, a tool used for interprocess communication **

Channel I/O In computing, channel I/O is a high-performance input/output (I/O) architecture that is implemented in various forms on a number of computer architectures, especially on mainframe computers. In the past, channels were generally implemented with cus ...

, in computing, a high-performance input/output (I/O) architecture **

Video blog A video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog (), is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in ...

, hosted by a video-sharing website or channel

Other uses in science and technology

Channel (semiconductor) The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the flow of current in a semiconductor. FETs (JFETs or MOSFETs) are devices with three terminals: ''source'', ''gate'', and ''drain''. FETs control ...

, a part of the structure of a field-effect transistor *

Ion channel Ion channels are pore-forming membrane proteins that allow ions to pass through the channel pore. Their functions include establishing a resting membrane potential, shaping action potentials and other electrical signals by gating the flow of io ...

, a protein that allows ion flow through a cell membrane *

Scattering channel In scattering theory, a scattering channel is a quantum state of the colliding system before or after the collision ( t \to \pm \infty ). The Hilbert space spanned by the states before collision (in states) is equal to the space spanned by the s ...

, a concept in quantum mechanics *

Strut channel Strut channel, often referred to colloquially by one of several manufacturer trade names, is a standardized formed structural system used in the construction and electrical industries for light structural support, often for supporting wiring, plumb ...

, a standardized formed structural system used in the construction and electrical industries *

Structural channel The structural channel, also known as a C-channel or Parallel Flange Channel (PFC), is a type of (usually structural steel) beam, used primarily in building construction and civil engineering. Its cross section consists of a wide "web", usually ...

Brands and enterprises

The Channel (nightclub) The Channel was a music venue located in Boston, Massachusetts, that was part of the underground arts community of South Boston. History Joe Cicerone, Harry Booras and Rich Clements founded The Channel in 1980, choosing the name because the club ...

, a music venue in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. *

Channel Express Channel Express (Air Services) Limited was an airline with its head office in Building 470 at Bournemouth International Airport in Christchurch, Dorset, near Bournemouth. It operated scheduled services from Bournemouth to the Channel Islands a ...

, a defunct British airline * Channel Home Centers, a defunct home improvement chain based in the northeastern United States

Business and legal terms

Channel (chart pattern) A price channel is a pair of parallel trend lines that form a chart pattern for a stock or commodity. Channels may be horizontal, ascending or descending. When prices pass through and stay through a trendline representing support or resistan ...

, a pair of parallel trend lines that form a chart pattern for a stock or commodity *

Distribution channel Distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of the marketing mix. Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for the consumer or business user who needs it. This can be done directly by the producer or service p ...

, a chain of intermediaries, each passing the product down the chain to the next organization, before it finally reaches the consumer *

Legal channeling Legal channeling is the act of legally making one entity responsible for an event, and thereby dismissing other parties from liability for an event. For example; the third part liability for nuclear power plants is often channelled to the operato ...

, the act of legally making one entity responsible for an event, and thereby dismissing other parties from liability *

Marketing channel A marketing channel consists of the people, organizations, and activities necessary to transfer the ownership of goods from the point of production to the point of consumption. It is the way products get to the end-user, the consumer; and is also k ...

, set of activities necessary to transfer the ownership of goods from the point of production to the point of consumption

Sports

Channel (association football) In association football, channels is the name given to certain areas of the pitch, created by the space between players and groups of players. There are two types of channels, vertical (between full backs and their closest centre back), and horizon ...

, football (soccer) terminology for particular areas of the pitch * Channel (horse), a racehorse *

Channel Football Club The Channel Football Club was an Australian rules football club that last played in the Old Scholars Football Association (Tas), also known as Old Scholars, from 2009 to 2015. Previous to that it was a member of the Southern Football League from ...

, an Australian football club in Tasmania

Other uses

Channel catfish The channel catfish (''Ictalurus punctatus'') is North America's most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a "channel cat". In the United States, the ...

, a catfish species in North America *

Meridian (Chinese medicine) The meridian system (, also called channel network) is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Meridians are paths through which the life-energy known as " qi" (''ch'i'') flows. Meridians are not real anatomical structures: scientists ...

, or channels, a concept central to traditional Chinese medical techniques such as acupuncture, and to martial arts such as tai chi and qigong *

Mediumship Mediumship is the practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or ghost, spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums". There are different types of mediumship o ...

or channelling, communication with spirits