Channel

Channel

A natural or artificial waterway which either periodically or continuously contains moving water or which forms a connecting link between two bodies of water.

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Industry/Domain: Earth science
Category: Mapping science
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Automotive; Automobile

Vehicle body lowered down around the frame.

channel

Automotive; Automobile

(1) To lower the vehicle body around the frame. (2) A route or groove through which anything passes.

channel

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river, harbor, or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; an open conduit either ...

channeling

Chemistry; Analytical chemistry

In chromatography, furrows or breaks in an ion-exchange bed which permit a solution to run through without having contact with active groups elsewhere in the bed.

subtropical

Earth science; Mapping science

Relating to the warmest region of the Temperate Zones that border on the Torrid Zone.

sky

Earth science; Mapping science

The region above and beyond the Earth, as it is seen looking up from the ground. Sky looks blue during the day and dark at night.

South Pole

Earth science; Mapping science

The most southern point of the Earth. The South Pole is the southern end of the axis on which the Earth rotates.

prime meridian

Earth science; Mapping science

The line of longitude that passes through the town of Greenwich, England, and that measures 0 degree. It is the line from which other longitude lines are measured.

planet

Earth science; Mapping science

A celestial body revolving around a sun in a nearly circular orbit. This definition excludes comets, which have highly elliptical orbits. However, it may also exclude some of ...

area of error

Earth science; Mapping science

A figure within which the true location of a point whose location has been determined by measurement is believed to lie, with stated degree of probability.

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