Portal
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Portal may refer to:
- Portal (architecture), a gate, door, or tunnel
- Portal (fiction), a magical or technological doorway that connects two different locations in time or space
In entertainment:
- Portal (interactive novel), a 1986 video game by Activision
- Portal (video game), a 2007 video game by Valve Corporation
- Portal 2, the sequel to the previously listed game
- Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs
In geography:
In music:
- Portal (Australian band), a metal band from Australia
- Portal (UK band), a band from the UK
- Portals (album), an album by Arsonists Get All The Girls
In computing:
- 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
- Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
- Web portal, a site that functions as a point of access to information on the Internet
- Portals network programming API, a high-performance networking programming interface for massively parallel supercomputers
In other uses:
- Portal (comics), a Marvel comic character
- Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
- Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
- Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England
People with the surname
- Antoine Portal, French anatomist, doctor and medical historian
- Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, British Marshal of the RAF and Chief of the Air Staff in World War II
- Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal, British businessman and public servant
- Michel Portal, French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
- Nicolas Portal, French professional road bicycle racer
- Gerald Portal, British colonial diplomat
See also
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- Portall, a metal band from the Netherlands
- El Portal, Florida
- Hepatic portal vein, a vein that drains blood from the digestive system
- Portal venous system, an occurrence where one capillary bed drains into another through veins
- Portal frame, a construction method
- Portal stones, a type of stone monument
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