Portal

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Portal often refers to:

• Portal (architecture), an opening in a wall of a building, gate or fortification, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel

Portal may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment[edit]

Gaming[edit]

• Portal (series), a series of video games developed by Valve
  • Portal (video game), a 2007 video game, the first in the series
  • Portal 2, the 2011 sequel
  • Portal Stories: Mel, a mod for Portal 2
  • Portal Revolution, a mod for Portal 2
  • Portal Reloaded, a mod for Portal 2
  • Aperture Tag, a mod for Portal 2
• Portal (1986 video game), a 1986 computer game by Activision
• Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
• Portal (video game element), an element in video game design

Music[edit]

• Portal (band), an Australian extreme metal band
• Portal (album), a 1994 album by Wendy & Carl
• "Portal", a 2014 song by Lights Little Machines
• Portals (Arsonists Get All the Girls album), 2009
• Portals (Sub Focus and Wilkinson album), 2020
• "Portals", by Alan Silvestri, from the soundtrack for the film Avengers: Endgame
• Portals (EP), a 2022 EP by Kirk Hammett
• Portals (Melanie Martinez album), 2023

Other uses in arts and entertainment[edit]

• Portal (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Portal (magic trick), an illusion performed by David Copperfield
• Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs
• Portal (sculptures), interactive art sculptures videoconferencing two cities
  • Vilnius–Lublin Portal, a 2021 interactive public art installation
  • New York–Dublin Portal, a 2024 interactive public art installation
• Portals (initiative), a public art initiative that connects people in different world cities through real-time videoconferencing
• The Portal (podcast), a podcast hosted by Eric Weinstein

Computing[edit]

Gateways to information[edit]

• Captive portal, controlling connections to the Internet
• 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
• Web portal, a site that functions as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web

Other uses in computing[edit]

• Meta Portal, a screen-enhanced smart speaker
• Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
• Portals network programming API, a high-performance networking programming interface for massively parallel supercomputers
• Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California

Places[edit]

• Portal, Arizona
• Portal, Georgia
• Portal, Nebraska
• Portal, North Dakota
  • North Portal, a village in Saskatchewan adjacent to Portal, North Dakota
• Portal Peak, a mountain in Canada
• Portal, Tarporley, a country house near Tarporley, Cheshire, England
• Portal Bridge, over the Hackensack River in New Jersey
• Portal Heights, former name for a railway station in Montreal, Canada

Organisations[edit]

• Clube Atlético Portal, a football club based in Uberlândia, Brazil
• Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England
• Portals (paper makers), a UK paper making company

Other uses[edit]

• NCAA transfer portal, a database and compliance tool facilitating US college athletes who wish to change schools
• Portal frame, a construction method
• Portal stones, a type of stone monument
• Portal (surname), shared by several notable people
• Portal venous system, an occurrence where one capillary bed drains into another through veins
  • Hepatic portal system, the portal system between the digestive system and the liver
    • Hepatic portal vein, a vein that drains blood from the digestive system
  • Hypophyseal portal system

See also[edit]

• Conduit (channeling)
• The Portal (disambiguation)
• Porthole, a window in the hull of a ship
• Wormhole

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