Port (disambiguation)

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

Port or ports may also refer to:

Transportation

• Port and starboard, terms for the left and right sides of air- or water-craft
• Facilities facilitating or regulating transport of goods and/or personnel:
  • Port of entry, where immigration and customs procedures are fulfilled
  • Airport, for air transport
  • Spaceport, for space vehicles

Computing and engineering

• Computer port (hardware), a physical interface between a computer and other electronic devices
• I/O port, a location in port address space associated with peripheral device
• Port (computer networking), a virtual data connection between computer programs
• Porting, modification of software for compatibility with previously inapplicable resources
• Ports collection, part of the package management infrastructure of modern BSD-derived operating systems
• Exhaust or transfer orifice of a two-stroke engine
• Porting (engine), modification of the shape and size of the engine's ports to enhance aerodynamic flow
• Port (circuit theory), a pair of terminals with equal and opposite current flows

Places

• Port, Ain, a commune in France
• Port, Bern, a commune in Switzerland
• Port, Szczecin, a neighbourhood in Szczecin, Poland
• Ports, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in France
• Ports (comarca), a comarca in the Valencian community, Spain.
• Ports de Tortosa-Beseit, a mountain massif at the NE end of the Iberian System
• Le Port, Ariège, in the Ariège department
• Le Port, Réunion, in the island of Réunion
• Le Port-Marly, in the Yvelines department
• Porţ, a village in Marca Commune, Sălaj County, Romania
• Porto, second largest city of Portugal
• Ports, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in France
• Ports (comarca), a comarca in the Land of Valencia
• Ports de Tortosa-Beseit, a mountain massif at the NE end of the Iberian System

Medicine

• Port (medical), a small medical appliance installed in the body
• PORT Score, a tool for predicting risk of death from pneumonia

Other uses

• Port (surname)
• PORT, an arts blog edited by Jeff Jahn
• Port wine, a fortified wine from Portugal made from grapes harvested in the Douro Valley
• Ported barrel, a gun barrel with holes drilled into it that are designed to reduce the tendency of the firearm to flip upwards
• Ports Authority F.C., a Sierra Leonean professional football club
• Ports collection, part of the package management infrastructure of modern BSD-derived operating systems
• Ports 1961, a fashion brand
• Bass reflex, aka Reflex port or Ported system, a system to increase loudspeaker efficiency
• Gun port, an opening in the side of the hull of a ship, above the waterline, which allows the muzzle of artillery pieces mounted on the gun deck to fire outside
• PORT.hu, a Hungarian database of actors and several performance media

See also

• Le Port (disambiguation)
• Port authority (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Port"