Portal - Portals

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
• Portal / Portal 2, video games developed by Valve Corporation.

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 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 (1742â€"1832), French anatomist, doctor and medical historian
• Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893â€"1971), British Marshal of the RAF and Chief of the Air Staff in World War II
• Gerald Portal (1858â€"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 (1885â€"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