Port

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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, nautical terms respectively referring to the left and right sides of a ship or aircraft as perceived by an observer facing the front of the craft
• 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
• The exhaust and transfer ports of a two stroke engine.

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
  • List of TCP and UDP port numbers
• 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, 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
• 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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