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
- Exhaust or transfer orifice of a two-stroke engine
- 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
- 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
- PORT.hu, a Hungarian database of actors and several performance media
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
- 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
- Port (circuit theory), a pair of terminals with equal and opposite current flows
- 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
See also
- Le Port (disambiguation)
- Port authority (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Port"
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