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Portal may refer to:
- Portal (architecture), a monumental gate or door, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel
- Portals in fiction, magical or technological doorways that connect two locations, dimensions, or points in time
Computing
Gateways to information
- 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 Internet
Other computing
- Portals network programming api, a high-performance networking programming interface for massively parallel supercomputers
- Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
Art, entertainment, and media
Games
- Portal (series), a series of puzzle-platformer video games developed by Valve Corporation
- Portal (video game), a 2007 video game by Valve Corporation
- Portal 2 (2011), the sequel to Valve's video game Portal (2007)
Music
Groups
- Portal (band), an Australian extreme metal band
- Portall (band), a Dutch extreme metal band
Albums
- Portal (album), a 1994 album by Windy & Carl
- Portals (album), a 2009 album by Arsonists Get All The Girls
Other art, entertainment, and media
- Portal (interactive novel), a 1986 interactive novel by Activision
- Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs
Places
- Portal, Arizona
- Portal, California
- Portal, Georgia
- Portal, Nebraska
- Portal, North Dakota
- El Portal, Florida
Other uses
- Portal (comics), a Marvel comic character
- Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
- Portal Bridge, over the Hackensack River in New Jersey
- Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
- Clube Atlético Portal, a football club based in Uberlândia, Brazil
- Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England
- Portal (magic trick), an illusion performed by David Copperfield
- Portal, Tarporley, a country house near Tarporley, Cheshire, England
People with the surname
- Antoine Portal (1742–1832), French anatomist, doctor and medical historian
- Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893–1971), British Marshal of the RAF and Chief of the Air Staff in World War II
- Gerald Portal (1858–1894), British colonial diplomat
- Michel Portal (born 1935), French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
- Nicolas Portal (born 1979), French professional road bicycle racer
- Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal (1885–1949), British businessman and public servant
Construction methods and structures
- Portal frame, a construction method
- Portal stones, a type of stone monument
- Portals of Vitoria-Gasteiz
Drainage systems
- 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
- Hepatic portal system, the portal system between the digestive system and the liver
See also
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