a path over which electrical signals can pass; a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
[ Syn: transmission channel ]
a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; the fields were crossed with irrigation channels; gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street'
a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
[ Syn: groove ]
a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; the ship went aground in the channel'
(often plural) a means of communication or access; it must go through official channels; lines of communication were set up between the two firms
[ Syn: communication channel , line ]
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; the tear duct was obstructed; the alimentary canal; poison is released through a channel in the snakes fangs
[ Syn: duct , epithelial duct , canal ]
a television station and its programs; a satellite TV channel; surfing through the channels; they offer more than one hundred channels
[ Syn: television channel , tv channel ]
a way of selling a companys product either directly or via distributors; possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores
[ Syn: distribution channel ]
channel (n.)
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; Sound carries well over water; The airwaves carry the sound; Many metals conduct heat
direct the flow of; channel information towards a broad audience
send from one person or place to another; transmit a message
[ Syn: transmit , transfer , transport , channelize , channelise ]