navigable channel

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• Channel (geography) — This article is about a geographical feature. For other uses, see channel. Wooden pilings mark the navigable channel for vessels entering Lake George from the St. Johns River in Florida …   Wikipedia

• navigable — navigability, navigableness, n. navigably, adv. /nav i geuh beuhl/, adj. 1. deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel. 2. capable of being steered or guided, as a ship, aircraft, or missile. [1520 30; < L navigabilis,… …   Universalium

• Navigable servitude — is a United States constitutional doctrine that gives the federal government the right to regulate navigable waterways as an extension of the Commerce Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the constitution. It is also sometimes called federal… …   Wikipedia

• navigable waters — nav·i·ga·ble wa·ters / na vi gə bəl / n pl: waters that are capable of being navigated (as for commerce) and to which federal admiralty jurisdiction and specific environmental regulations apply it is the national goal that the discharge of… …   Law dictionary

• channel — I (avenue) noun arrangement, conduit, course, duct, expedient, facility, forum, instrument, instrumentality, means, medium, method, mode, outlet, passage, path, procedure, process, scheme, set up, strategy, tool, way II (navigable water) noun… …   Law dictionary

• Channel Islands Harbor — Location Country United States Location Oxnard, California Coordinates …   Wikipedia

• channel — ► NOUN 1) a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas. 2) (the Channel) the English Channel. 3) Biology a tubular passage or duct for liquid. 4) an electric circuit which acts as a path for a… …   English terms dictionary

• navigable — See navigable waters @ navigable in fact Streams or lakes are navigable in fact when they are used or are susceptible of being used in their natural and ordinary condition as highways for commerce over which trade and travel are or may be… …   Black's law dictionary

• navigable — See navigable waters @ navigable in fact Streams or lakes are navigable in fact when they are used or are susceptible of being used in their natural and ordinary condition as highways for commerce over which trade and travel are or may be… …   Black's law dictionary

• channel — channel1 channeler; esp. Brit., channeller, n. /chan l/, n., v., channeled, channeling or (esp. Brit.) channelled, channelling. n. 1. the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway. 2. Naut. a navigable route between two bodies of water …   Universalium

• channel — I chan•nel [[t]ˈtʃæn l[/t]] n. v. neled, nel•ing (esp. brit.) nelled, nel•ling. 1) the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway 2) naut. navig. a navigable route between two bodies of water 3) the deeper part of a waterway 4) a wide strait, as… …   From formal English to slang