pseudochannel

Meanings

1. A subparallel feature consisting of a central core of undeformed strata, roughly U-shaped in cross section and cigar-shaped in plan, embedded in finer grained material.
2. One division of an actual channel into multiple theoretical channels, one per opening, to represent flow through openings into sidestreams.
3. One of multiple orthorectified images for a single location, each representing a different DEM (digital elevation model).
4. A virtual channel included in the mathematical model of electron collisions to account for excluded states when using the Matrix Effective Potential (MEP) method.
5. Any data channel that is introduced as a theoretical pathway that does not correspond to a physical channel.
6. A theoretical channel representing the pathway by which a chemical agent interacts with a receptor site.

Etymology

From pseudo- + channel.