Port

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Port can be any of the following:

• In transportation:
  • A facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. See seaport, river port, fishing port, harbor, and port city.
  • A nautical term for "left." See port (nautical).
  • A hatch through the side of a sea vessel such as a gunport or a porthole.

• In computing:
  • A device on a computer or other equipment, such as chemical reactors, for attaching a piece of peripheral equipment, and for transferring data or material through it to the peripheral equipment. See port (computing).
  • A process to adapt a computer program running under one platform to under another platform. See porting for detail.

• A type of wine. See port wine.

• A commune in the Ain [[d�partement]], in France. See Port, France.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Port" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port, used under the GNU Free Documentation License