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A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo.
Port or ports may also refer to:
Transportation
- Port (nautical), a nautical term meaning the left hand side of a vessel for an observer facing forward
- Port of entry, a facility for passengers, vehicles and goods to clear immigration and customs procedures
- Airport, a facility for transporting passengers and/or cargo via aircraft
- Spaceport, a facility for transporting passengers and/or cargo to space
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
- Port numbers which are recognized by Internet and other network protocols, enabling the computer to interact with others
- PORT.hu, a Hungarian film, actor, television, sports, and theatre database
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 Land of Valencia
- 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.
Medicine
- Port (medical), a small medical appliance installed in the body
- PORT Score, a tool for predicting risk of death from pneumonia
People
- James F. Ports, Jr., American politician
- Whitney Port, American television personality
Other uses
- Port wine, a fortified wine originally from 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
- Two-port network, a pair of terminals with equal and opposite current flows
- Bass reflex, aka Reflex port or Ported system, a system to increase loudspeaker efficiency
See also
- Ports (disambiguation)
- Le Port (disambiguation)
- Port authority (disambiguation)
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