Portal

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Portal may refer to:

• Portal (architecture), a gate, door, or tunnel
• Portal (fiction), a magical or technological doorway that connects two different locations in time or space

In entertainment:

• Portal (interactive novel), a 1986 video game by Activision
• Portal (video game), a 2007 video game by Valve Corporation
• Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs

In geography:

• Portal, California
• Portal, Georgia
• Portal, North Dakota

In music:

• Portal (band), a band from the UK
• Portals (album), an album by Arsonists Get All The Girls
• Portal (metal band), a metal band from Australia
• Portall, a metal band from the Netherlands

In computing:

• Enterprise portal, a framework to provide a single point of access to a variety of information and tools
• Intranet portal, a gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications
• Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
• Web portal, a site that functions as a point of access to information on the Internet
• Portals network programming API, a high-performance networking programming interface for massively parallel supercomputers

In other uses:

• Portal (comics), a Marvel comic character
• Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
• Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
• Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England

[edit] People with the surname

• Antoine Portal, French anatomist, doctor and medical historian
• Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, British Marshal of the RAF and Chief of the Air Staff in World War II
• Michel Portal, French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
• Nicolas Portal, French professional road bicycle racer
• Gerald Portal, British colonial diplomat

[edit] See also

• El Portal, Florida
• Hepatic portal vein, a vein that drains blood from the digestive system
• Portal venous system, an occurrence where one capillary bed drains into another through veins
• Portal frame, a construction method
• Portal stones, a type of stone monument

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