Computer port

Look up port in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo.

Port may also mean:

• Port district, a governmental agency created to develop and support local economic activity
• Port (nautical), a nautical term relating to a ship or boat and meaning the left hand side when viewed by a person in the vessel and looking forward
• Port wine, a fortified wine which originated in Portugal
• The Port, a Pentalog intranet/internet management software
• Part of a diving regulator
• Part of an internal combustion engine
  • Porting (engine), tuning of ports

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

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

See also

• Harbor
• Airport