Port (disambiguation)
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A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo.
Port may also refer to:
- Port district, a governmental agency created to develop and support local economic activity
- Port (nautical), a nautical term meaning the left hand side of a vessel for an observer facing forward
- Porthole, a small, generally circular, window used on the hull of ships to admit light and air
- Port (medical), a small medical appliance installed in the body
- PORT Score, a tool for predicting risk of death from pneumonia
- Port wine, a fortified wine that originated in 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
- Suitcase, which is called a "port" in some parts of Australia, namely Queensland
- The Port, a Pentalog intranet/Internet management software
- Ported loudspeaker, synonym for Bass reflex design
- 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 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
- TCP and UDP ports, numbers which are recognized by Internet and other network protocols, enabling the computer to interact with others
- 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
- Le Port, the name or part of the name of several communes in France
- Le Port, Ariège, in the Ariège department
- Le Port, Réunion, in the island of Réunion
- Le Port-Marly, in the Yvelines department
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