Panel may refer to:

Arts and media

Visual arts

* Panel (comics), a single image in a comic book, comic strip or cartoon; also, a comic strip containing one such image *

Panel painting A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together. Until canvas became the more popular support medium in the 16th century, panel painting was the normal method, when not paint ...

, in art, either one element of a multi-element piece of art, such as a triptych, a piece of sequential art such as a graphic novel or comic strip, or a wooden panel used to paint a picture on *Groupings of rock art, pictographs or petroglyphs

Television

* ''The Panel'' (Australian TV series), an Australian talk show * ''The Panel'' (Irish TV series), an Irish talk show *

Panel game A panel show or panel game is a radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates. Celebrity panelists may compete with each other, such as on ''The News Quiz''; facilitate play by non-celebrity contestants, such as on ' ...

, a form of game show involving a group of celebrities

Law

Judicial panel A judicial panel is a set of judges who sit together to hear a cause of action, most frequently an appeal from a ruling of a trial court judge. Panels are used in contrast to single-judge appeals, and hearings, which involves all of the judges of ...

, set of judges who sit to hear a cause of action *

Jury A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence and render an impartial verdict (a finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment. Juries developed in England du ...

panel, body of people convened to render a judicial verdict * ''Panel'', or ''pannel'', in Scotland, formal term in solemn proceedings for an accused person; see

Indictment An indictment ( ) is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime. In jurisdictions that use the concept of felonies, the most serious criminal offence is a felony; jurisdictions that do not use the felonies concept often use that of a ...

People

* Brice Panel (born 1983), French sprinter * Caroline Giron-Panel (born 1979), French historian and musicologist

Science and technology

Electrical devices

Breaker panel A distribution board (also known as panelboard, breaker panel, electric panel, DB board or DB box) is a component of an electricity supply system that divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits while providing a protective fus ...

, a flat area containing electrical circuit breakers *

Control panel (engineering) A control panel is a flat, often vertical, area where control or monitoring instruments are displayed or it is an enclosed unit that is the part of a system that users can access, such as the control panel of a security system (also called control u ...

, a flat area containing controls and indicators, used to operate machinery *Flat panel display, in (for example) laptops and mobile devices *Solar panel, a flat module of photovoltaic solar cells *Panel switch, a type of electromechanical telephone switching system developed by the Bell System in the 1920s

Other physical objects

*Several types of planar structural elements **Structural insulated panel, a building construction system *Panelling, a form of wall covering used for decoration and (originally) insulation *Panel edge staining, build-up on aluminium or stainless steel paneling *Panels, sections of fabric or other material that make up a Canopy (parachute), parachute canopy

Research protocols

*Survey panel, a type of non-random sample survey *Panel study or longitudinal study, a research design involving repeated observations over time **Panel data or longitudinal data, measured over time

Software

* Panel (computer software), a widget or a control element ** Control panel (software), an interface based by metaphor on a physical control panel * GNOME Panel, a taskbar implementation for the GNOME desktop environment

Other uses in science and technology

*Test panel, a predetermined group of medical tests

Other uses

* Panel discussion, a small group of experts speaking in turns before an audience, usually including a question period and usually with the purpose of educating or persuading