Panel Explained

Panel may refer to:

Arts and media

Visual arts

• Panel painting, in art, a painting on a wood panel (as opposed to canvas, a wall etc)
• Panel (comics), a single image in a comic book, comic strip or cartoon; also, a comic strip containing one such image
• 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

• Panel van, or Panel truck, forms of solid van or truck, usually smaller than standard models