Panel

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Panel may refer to:

Arts and media

Visual arts

  • Panel (comics), a single image in a comic book, comic strip or cartoon; also, a comic strip containing one such image
  • Panel painting, in art, either one element of a multi-element piece of art, such as a triptych, a piece of sequential art such as a graphic novel or comic strip, or a wooden panel used to paint a picture on
  • Groupings of rock art, pictographs or petroglyphs

Television

  • The Panel (Australian TV series), an Australian talk show
  • The Panel (Irish TV series), an Irish talk show
  • Panel game, a form of game show involving a group of celebrities

Law

  • Judicial panel, set of judges who sit to hear a cause of action
  • Jury panel, body of people convened to render a judicial verdict
  • Panel, or pannel, in Scotland, formal term in solemn proceedings for an accused person; see Indictment

People

  • Brice Panel (born 1983), French sprinter
  • Caroline Giron-Panel (born 1979), French historian and musicologist

Science and technology

Electrical devices

  • Breaker panel, a flat area containing electrical circuit breakers
  • Control panel (engineering), a flat area containing controls and indicators, used to operate machinery
  • Flat panel display, in (for example) laptops and mobile devices
  • Solar panel, a flat module of photovoltaic solar cells
  • Panel switch, a type of electromechanical telephone switching system developed by the Bell System in the 1920s

Other physical objects

  • Several types of planar structural elements
    • Structural insulated panel, a building construction system
  • Panelling, a form of wall covering used for decoration and (originally) insulation
  • Panel edge staining, build-up on aluminium or stainless steel paneling
  • Panels, sections of fabric or other material that make up a parachute canopy

Research protocols

  • Survey panel, a type of non-random sample survey
  • Panel study or longitudinal study, a research design involving repeated observations over time
    • Panel data or longitudinal data, measured over time

Software

  • Panel (computer software), a widget or a control element
    • Control panel (software), an interface based by metaphor on a physical control panel
  • GNOME Panel, a taskbar implementation for the GNOME desktop environment

Other uses in science and technology

  • Test panel, a predetermined group of medical tests

Other uses

  • Panel discussion, a small group of experts speaking in turns before an audience, usually including a question period and usually with the purpose of educating or persuading

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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