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Portaler :: Porter,_Cole :: Portaalit :: Porter :: Portman,_Natalie :: Portale :: Portfolios :: Port_Erin :: Portals_and_Networks :: Porter,_Peter
 

A port is a facility for receiving and launching vessels and transferring cargo and/or passengers to and from them.

See also: Harbor

Port may also mean:

Places
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 networking
  • 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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