Port (disambiguation)

A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo.

Port or PORT may also refer to:

Transportation

• Airport, for air transport
• Spaceport, for space vehicles
• Gun port, an opening in the side of the hull of a ship, above the waterline, which allows the muzzle of artillery pieces mounted on the gun deck to fire outside
• Port of entry, where immigration and customs procedures are fulfilled
• Port and starboard, terms for the left and right sides, respectively, of air- or water-craft

Places

• Port, Ain, a commune in France
• Port, Bern, a commune in Switzerland
• Port, Szczecin, a neighbourhood in Szczecin, Poland
• Port, Templeport, a townland in the parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland
• Porţ, a village in Marca Commune, Sălaj County, Romania
• Le Port, Ariège, in the Ariège department
• Le Port, Réunion, in the island of Réunion
• Le Port-Marly, in the Yvelines department
• Porto, second largest city of Portugal
• Ports (comarca), a comarca in the Valencian Community, Spain
• Ports-sur-Vienne, a commune in France
• Ports de Tortosa-Beseit, a mountain massif at the NE end of the Iberian System

People

• Port (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Port (film), a 1934 Italian film
• PORT (blog), an arts blog edited by Jeff Jahn
• PORT.hu, a Hungarian database of actors and several performance media

Computing and engineering

• Port (circuit theory), a pair of terminals with equal and opposite current flows
• Port (computer networking), a virtual data connection between computer programs
• Port (software), software converted to run on a platform different from the original platform
  • Port (video gaming)
• Port, exhaust or transfer orifice of a two-stroke engine
• Bass reflex, also known as a reflex port or ported system, a system to increase loudspeaker efficiency
• Computer port (hardware), a physical interface between a computer and other electronic devices
• I/O port, a location in port address space associated with peripheral device
• Ported barrel, a gun barrel with holes drilled into it that are designed to reduce the tendency of the firearm to flip upwards
• Porting (engine), modification of the shape and size of the engine's ports to enhance aerodynamic flow
• Ports collection, part of the package management infrastructure of modern BSD-derived operating systems package management infrastructure of modern BSD-derived operating systems

Medicine

• Port (medicine), a small medical appliance installed in the body
• PORT Score, a tool for predicting risk of death from pneumonia

Other uses

• Port, an Australian term for a schoolbag or, more generally, any type of luggage
• Port wine, a fortified wine (especially when from Portugal)
• Ports 1961, a fashion brand
• Ports Authority F.C., a Sierra Leonean professional football club
• Christopher Newport University, nicknamed Port U.
• Victoria Police Public Order Response Team

See also

• Le Port (disambiguation)
• Port authority (disambiguation)
• Port of Call (disambiguation)
• Porte (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Port
• All pages with titles containing Port
• Old Port (disambiguation)
• Newport (disambiguation)