Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Channel \Chan"nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Channeled, or Channelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Channeling, or Channelling.]
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To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
--Shak. To course through or over, as in a channel.
--Cowper.
Wiktionary
alt. (present participle of channel English) n. 1 A channel or furrow. 2 The act by which something is channelled. vb. (present participle of channel English)
WordNet
See channel
v. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: conduct, transmit, convey, carry]
direct the flow of; "channel infomartion towards a broad audience" [syn: canalize, canalise]
send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channelize, channelise]
[also: channelling, channelled]
n. 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 snake's 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 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" [syn: distribution channel]
[also: channelling, channelled]
Wikipedia
Channelling is the process that constrains the path of a charged particle in a crystalline solid
Many physical phenomena can occur when a charged particle is incident upon a solid target, e.g., elastic scattering, inelastic energy-loss processes, secondary-electron emission, electromagnetic radiation, nuclear reactions, etc. All of these processes have cross sections which depend on the impact parameters involved in collisions with individual target atoms. When the target material is homogeneous and isotropic, the impact-parameter distribution is independent of the orientation of the momentum of the particle and interaction processes are also orientation-independent. When the target material is monocrystalline, the yields of physical processes are very strongly dependent on the orientation of the momentum of the particle relative to the crystalline axes or planes. Or in other words, the stopping power of the particle is much lower in certain directions than others. This effect is commonly called the "channelling" effect. It is related to other orientation-dependent effects, such as particle diffraction. These relationships will be discussed in detail later.
Usage examples of "channelling".
After the death of Mao Zedong and the gradual emergence of a market economy, UFOs, channelling and other examples of Western pseudoscience emerged, along with such ancient Chinese practices as ancestor worship, astrology and fortune telling - especially that version that involves throwing yarrow sticks and working through the hoary tetragrams of the I Ching.
It includes Roman Catholicism, the Orthodox Churches, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism, rock and roll music, channelling, astrology and New Age beliefs in general.
What's more, we have an opportunity, if the spiritualist or channelling contentions are true, to make contact with loved ones who have died.
Astrology, channelling, Ouija boards, predicting the future and much else is forbidden.
The psychiatrist `discovered that Jose was channelling a distinct entity who was known as Carlos.
Several elderly attendees of the channelling at the Sydney Opera House were incensed after the Sixty Minutes expose: `Never mind what they say,' they told Alvarez, `we believe in you.
Over the years, a profusion of credulous, uncritical TV series and `specials' - on ESP, channelling, the Bermuda Triangle, UFOs, ancient astronauts, Big Foot, and the like - have been spawned.
All these tales of a man channelling are bad enough, but there have been murders in the street this last month and more, in broad daylight, and strange accidents.
The test for the shawl required channelling with absolute calm under great stress, and far worse than this had been done to her then.
No man on record had begun channelling before that, and some not for ten years or more later.
Basic industrialization had been completed, the world was tamed, and people were looking for new ways of channelling their energies.
The station’s floor was divided up by concentric rows of turnstiles, channelling passengers into the cluster of wave stairs occupying the centre.
Colossal energies clashed and merged in peaks and troughs that mimicked the surface of a choppy sea, channelling the direction in which the force was expended.
With enough training, anyone could effect the odd fumbling hex, but this kind of psychic channelling took a prodigious birth-talent and years of arduous study.
The psychiatrist 'discovered that Jose was channelling a distinct entity who was known as Carlos.