channelization
noun
channelization is a noun meaning “The straightening and widening of a stream or river” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-A-N-N-E-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of channelization is channelizations.
What does channelization mean?
noun
- 1
The straightening and widening of a stream or river.
- 2
The division of a wide-band communications channel into multiple narrow-band channels.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of channelization
- channelizations plural
- channelisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is channelization?
Channelization appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does channelization come from?
From channel + -ization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).