title: Port (disambiguation)
text: # 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 Land of Valencia, 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 (medical), 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
  