Portal

A portal may be:

A grand entrance, as into a cathedral.
A Web portal (a kind of Web site).
A kind of remote procedure call interface.
The structure through which a highway or railroad tunnel exits to the surface.
Portal, Georgia is a small town in the United States.
Marshal of the RAF Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford was British Chief of the Air Staff in the Second World War.
A metafictional device, such as a door or doorway, that transports the user from one place to another, distant, place. Such portals are often found in linking rooms.
Portal, a television show on G4techTV.

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