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• 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 or game running on one platform to another platform. See porting for detail.

• Port wine, a red fortified wine made largely in PortugalRepublica Portuguesa ( In Detail) National motto: None Official language Portuguese 3 Capital Lisbon President Jorge Sampaio Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes Area Total % water World ranking: 109th 92,391 km²0. 5 % Population Total ( 2004) Density World from grapes. Historically the wine was produced by families called Quintas. The most prestigeous amongst the port families were the Fonseca.

• A commune in the AinAin is also a figure from mythology; see Ain (mythology). Ain Details Information Number01 Region Rhone-Alpes Prefecture Bourg-en-Bresse Subprefectures Belley Gex Nantua Population Total ( 1999) Density Ranked 48th 515,270 89 /km² Area 5,762 km² Arrondiss départementThe departements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas regions''. They are subdivided into 342 arrondissements''. Departements are also found i, in FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents.. See Port, France .