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Port

The word port can refer to:

  • a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. See seaport and harbour.

  • a device on a computer for accommodating a piece of peripheral equipment. See port (computing).

  • a process to adapt a program running under one platform to under another platform. See porting for detail.


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