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Portal often refers to:
- Portal (architecture), a monumental gate or door, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel
- Portals in fiction, magical or technological doorways that connect two locations, dimensions, or points in time
Portal may also refer to:
Places
Inhabited places
Built environment
- Portal, Tarporley, a country house near Tarporley, Cheshire, England
- Portal Bridge, over the Hackensack River in New Jersey
- Portals of Vitoria-Gasteiz, a Medieval tower that fortified entrances to the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, in Basque Country, in Spain
People with the name
- Portal (surname), shared by several notable people
Arts, entertainment, and media
Gaming
- Portal (interactive novel), a 1986 computer game by Activision.
- Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
- Portal (video game series), a series of puzzle-platformer video games developed by Valve Corporation
- Portal (video game), a 2007 video game by Valve Corporation
- Portal 2 (2011), the sequel to Valve's video game Portal (2007)
Music
Groups
- Portal (band), an Australian extreme metal band
- Portall (band), a Dutch extreme metal band
Albums
- Portal (album), a 1994 album by Windy & Carl
- Portals (album), a 2009 album by Arsonists Get All The Girls
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Portal (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Portal (magic trick), an illusion performed by David Copperfield
- Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs
- Portals (initiative), a public art initiative that connects people in different world cities through real-time videoconferencing
Sport
- Clube Atlético Portal, a football club based in Uberlândia, Brazil
- Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England
Technology
Computing
Gateways to information
- Captive portal, controlling connections to the Internet
- Enterprise portal, a framework to provide a single point of access to a variety of information and tools
- Intranet portal, a gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications
- Web portal, a site that functions as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web
Other uses in computing
- Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
- Portals network programming api, a high-performance networking programming interface for massively parallel supercomputers
Drainage systems
- Portal venous system, an occurrence where one capillary bed drains into another through veins
- Hepatic portal system, the portal system between the digestive system and the liver
- Hepatic portal vein, a vein that drains blood from the digestive system
- Hypophyseal portal system
- Hepatic portal system, the portal system between the digestive system and the liver
Other technologies
- Portal frame, a construction method
Other uses
- Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
- Portal stones, a type of stone monument
See also
- Porthole, a window in the hull of a ship
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