Port (disambiguation)
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Port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo.
Port may also mean:
- Port district, a governmental agency created to develop and support local economic activity
- Port (nautical), a nautical term relating to a ship or boat and meaning the left hand side when viewed by a person in the vessel and looking forward
- Porthole, often shortened to port
- Port wine, a fortified wine which originated in Portugal
- The Port, a Pentalog intranet/internet management software
- Part of a diving regulator
- Part of an internal combustion engine
- Porting (engine), tuning of ports
- Places
- Port, Ain, a commune in France
- Port, Bern, a commune in Switzerland
- Port, County Donegal, a wild place in Ireland
- Ports, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in France
- Ports (comarca), a comarca in the Land of Valencia
See also: Le Port
In computers:
- 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
- TCP and UDP ports, numbers which are recognized by Internet and other network protocols, enabling the computer to interact with others
- Porting, the process of re-writing 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
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da:Portde:Port es:Puerto (desambiguación) fr:Port it:Port he:פורט nl:Poort ja:ポート pl:Port fi:Portti uk:Порт
