Dictionary definition · channel
noun
- a path over which electrical signals can pass"a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through"the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"
- 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)
- 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"
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance"the tear duct was obstructed"
- a television station and its programs"a satellite TV channel"
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors"possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores"
verb
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission"Sound carries well over water"
- direct the flow of"channel information towards a broad audience"
- send from one person or place to another"transmit a message"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).