Port (disambiguation)
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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.
- 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.
Port can also mean:
- port (nautical), a nautical term for "left", or a hatch through the side of a sea vessel
- port (computing), a device, whether physical or logical, for attaching an external piece of equipment or data source
- port wine, a fortified wine made in Portugal
- Port, Ain, a commune in France
- Port, Bern, a commune in Switzerland
See also:
- Ports, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in France
- Ports (comarca), a comarca in the Valencian Autonomous Community