Portal
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Portal primarily refers to:
- Portal (architecture), a gate or door
- Portal (fiction), a magical or technological doorway that connects two distant locations
Portal may also refer to:
[edit] Computing
- Enterprise portal, a framework to provide a single point of access to a variety of information and tools
- Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
- Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
- Web portal, a site that functions as a point of access to information on the Internet
[edit] Entertainment
- Portal (interactive novel), an early interactive novel for personal computers
- Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs
- Portal (video game), a 2007 first-person puzzle game produced by Valve Corporation
[edit] Music
- Portal (UK band), an ambient/dreampop band from the UK
[edit] People
- 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
- Michel Portal, French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
- Nicolas Portal, French professional road bicycle racer
[edit] Places
[edit] Biology
- 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
[edit] Other
- Portal (comics), a Marvel comic character
- Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
- Portal frame, a construction method
- Portal stones, a type of stone monument