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- A port is a facility at the edge of a body of water for receiving ships and transferring cargo or passengers. See also seaport, river port, fishing port, harbor, and port city. In the twentieth century, the concept was expanded to include air transport, by use of the term airport. Nonetheless, ports and airports are commonly regarded as distinct.
- A staple port is one in which trade in specified goods is regulated. The term is a medieval one. Normally the king licensed a particular group of merchants to trade in the commodity, in an area such as his country and their trading had to be done in the staple town or port.
- A port is an opening, a means of entry to, egress from or of access to the inside of a ship an aircraft, a spacecraft, an engine casing or the like. The term includes many specialized openings such as a fuelling port or machine-gun port in an aircraft, a docking port in a spacecraft, a freeing port or a gun port in a ship, an inlet port or exhaust port in an engine and so on.
- A port gives electrical access to electronic equipment. An example is the radio frequency input port of a radio set.
- A port (computing) is a device, whether physical or logical, for attaching an external piece of equipment or data source.
- A port is a product of software porting. See below.
- A port district is a governmental agency created to develop and support local economic activity.
- In Queensland, Australia a port is a suitcase, or school bag.
- 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 is a fortified wine made in Portugal.
Places called Port
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