Port (disambiguation)

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A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo.

Port may also refer to:

  • Port district, a governmental agency created to develop and support local economic activity
  • Port is a historic word for a gate, now chiefly used in Scotland and seen in place names such as the West Port, Edinburgh.
  • Port (nautical), a nautical term meaning the left hand side of a vessel for an observer facing forward
  • Porthole, a small, generally circular, window used on the hull of ships to admit light and air
  • Port (medical), a small medical appliance installed in the body
  • PORT Score, a tool for predicting risk of death from pneumonia
  • Port wine, a fortified wine that originated in Portugal
  • Porting (engine), modification of the shape and size of the engine's ports to enhance aerodynamic flow
  • Ported barrel, a gun barrel with holes drilled into it that are designed to reduce the tendency of the firearm to flip upwards
  • The Port, a Pentalog intranet/Internet management software
  • Ported loudspeaker, synonym for Bass reflex design
  • Port (electronics), a pair of terminals with equal and opposite current flows
Computing
  • Computer port (hardware), a physical interface between a computer and other computers or devices
  • Computer port (software), a virtual data connection between computer programs possibly through a computer network
  • Porting, the process of re-writing software so as to make it compatible with other operating system and/or hardware architectures
  • Ports collection, part of the package management infrastructure of modern BSD-derived operating systems
  • TCP and UDP ports, numbers which are recognized by Internet and other network protocols, enabling the computer to interact with others
Websites
  • PORT.hu, a Hungarian film, actor, television, sports, and theatre database
Places
People

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