Portal

Portal may refer to:

• Portal (architecture), a monumental gate or door, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel
• A magical or technological doorway that connects two locations, dimensions, or points in time; see Portals in fiction

Computing

Gateways to information

• Captive portal, controlling connections to the Internet
• 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
• Web portal, a site that functions as a point of access to information on the Internet

Other

• Portals network programming api, a high-performance networking programming interface for massively parallel supercomputers
• Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics

Entertainment

• Portal (interactive novel), a 1986 video game by Activision
• Portal (series), a series of puzzle-platformer video games developed by Valve Corporation
  • Portal (video game), a 2007 video game by Valve Corporation
  • Portal 2, the sequel to Valve's 2007 video game Portal released in 2011
• Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs

Places

• Portal, Arizona
• Portal, California
• Portal, Georgia
• Portal, Nebraska
• Portal, North Dakota

Music

• Portall, a Thrash-Death Metal band from the Netherlands
• Portal (Australian band), a metal band from Australia
• Portal (album), a 1994 album by Windy & Carl
• Portals (album), a 2009 album by Arsonists Get All The Girls

Other uses

• Portal (comics), a Marvel comic character
• Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
• Portal Bridge, over the Hackensack River in New Jersey
• Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
• Clube Atlético Portal, a football club based in Uberlândia, Brazil
• Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England
• Portal (magic trick), an illusion performed by David Copperfield
• Portal, Tarporley, a country house near Tarporley, Cheshire, England

People with the surname

• Antoine Portal (1742–1832), French anatomist, doctor and medical historian
• Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893–1971), British Marshal of the RAF and Chief of the Air Staff in World War II
• Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal (1885–1949), British businessman and public servant
• Michel Portal (born 1935), French composer, saxist, and clarinetist
• Nicolas Portal (born 1979), French professional road bicycle racer
• Gerald Portal (1858–1894), British colonial diplomat

See also

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