Portal

Portal often refers 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 may also refer to:

Places

Inhabited places

• Portal, Arizona*
• Portal, California*
• Portal, Georgia*
• Portal, Nebraska*
• Portal, North Dakota*

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 Corporation
  • Portal (video game), a 2007 video game by Valve Corporation, the first game in the series
  • Portal 2 (video game), a 2011 video game by Valve Corporation

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

See also

• Porthole, a window in the hull of a ship