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The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
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The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
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The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
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A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
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The navigable part of a river.
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We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
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A narrow body of water between two land masses.
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The English Channel lies between France and England.
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Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
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The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
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A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
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A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
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The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
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The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
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(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
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A channel stretches between them.
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(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
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We are using one of the 24 channels.
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(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
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The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
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(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
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Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
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A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
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KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
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A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
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NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
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(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.
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This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
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(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
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The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
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A distribution channel
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A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
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An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
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A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.