English Dictionary

channel

/ˈt͡ʃænəl/

noun

The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks. / The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water. / The navigable part of a river.

The boat sailed through the narrow channel.

意味（1）

The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.

The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.

意味（2）

The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

意味（3）

The navigable part of a river.

We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

意味（4）

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

The English Channel lies between France and England.

意味（5）

Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.

The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

意味（6）

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

意味（7）

(construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.

The channel is not very efficient as a beam or column when used alone, but built-up members may be constructed of channels assembled together with other structural shapes and connected by rivets or welds.

意味（8）

(electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.

意味（9）

(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.

意味（10）

(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

A channel stretches between them.

意味（11）

(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

We are using one of the 24 channels.

意味（12）

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.

意味（13）

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.

意味（14）

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.

意味（15）

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.

NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

意味（16）

(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.

This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.

意味（17）

(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

意味（18）

(business, marketing) A distribution channel

意味（19）

(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.

意味（20）

(Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.

Netcaster is the receiver for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.

意味（21）

A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.