Portal

Portal often refers to:

Portal (architecture), a monumental gate or door, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel

Portal may also refer to:

Places

Inhabited places

Built environment

Portal, Tarporley, a country house near Tarporley, Cheshire, England
Portal Bridge, over the Hackensack River in New Jersey
Portals of Vitoria-Gasteiz, a Medieval tower that fortified entrances to the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, in Basque Country, in Spain

People with the name

Portal (surname), shared by several notable people

Arts, entertainment, and media

Gaming

Portal (interactive novel), a 1986 computer game by Activision.
Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
Portal (series), a series of puzzle-platformer video games developed by Valve
- Portal (video game), a 2007 video game by Valve, the first game in the series
- Portal 2, a 2011 video game by Valve

Music

Groups

Portal (band), an Australian extreme metal band
Portall (band), a Dutch extreme metal band

Albums

Portal (album), a 1994 album by Wendy & Carl
Portals (album), a 2009 album by Arsonists Get All The Girls

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Portal (comics), a Marvel Comics character
Portal (magic trick), an illusion performed by David Copperfield
Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs
Portals (initiative), a public art initiative that connects people in different world cities through real-time videoconferencing
"Portals" (song), by Alan Silvestri for the movie Avengers: Endgame

Sport

Clube Atlético Portal, a football club based in Uberlândia, Brazil
Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England

Technology

Blood circulation

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

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 World Wide Web

Other uses in computing

Facebook 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

Other uses in technology

Portal frame, a construction method

Other uses

Portal Peak, a mountain in Canada
Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
Portal stones, a type of stone monument

Shows

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