Port (disambiguation)

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

Other types of ports include:

• Airport, a facility for transporting passengers and/or cargo via aircraft
• Spaceport, a facility for transporting passengers and/or cargo to space

Port may also refer to:

• Port (nautical), a nautical term meaning the left hand side of a vessel for an observer facing forward
• 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
• A gate, now chiefly in Scotland as in place names such as the West Port, Edinburgh
• Portmanteau (suitcase), in colloquial English of Queensland

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 modifying 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
  • List of TCP and UDP port numbers

Websites

• PORT.hu, a Hungarian film, actor, television, sports, and theatre database

Places

• Port, Ain, a commune in France
• Port, Bern, a commune in Switzerland
• Ports, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in France
• Ports (comarca), a comarca in the Land of Valencia
• Le Port, the name or part of the name of several communes in France
  • Le Port, Ariège, in the Ariège department
  • Le Port, Réunion, in the island of Réunion
  • Le Port-Marly, in the Yvelines department
• Port, Szczecin, a neighbourhood in Szczecin, Poland

People

• James F. Ports, Jr., American politician
• Whitney Port, American television personality

[edit] See also

• Port authority
• Porthole

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