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Port of Valencia
The Port of Valencia (Valenciaport) is a Spanish Mediterranean seaport in the city of Valencia, the leading container port of Spain and fourth in Europe.
Port of Vancouver
The Port of Vancouver is Canada's largest seaport, a complex of deep-water terminals on the coast of British Columbia managed by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority.
Port of Virginia
The Port of Virginia is Virginia's container and general cargo seaport, centered on Norfolk Harbor and operated by the state's Virginia Port Authority, the deepest on the East Coast.
Port of Yokohama
The Port of Yokohama (横浜港) is a commercial seaport in Yokohama, Japan, opened to international trade in 1859 and first in Japan for incoming foreign ships since 1964.
Port Qasim EPC power station
The Port Qasim EPC power station is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant at Port Qasim near Karachi, Pakistan, built as a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project and completed in 2018.
Port scanner
A port scanner is a program that probes a network host's ports to determine which are open, closed, or filtered; tools like Nmap, ZMap, and Masscan scan from single hosts to the entire IPv4 Internet.
Port state control
Port state control (PSC) is the inspection of foreign ships in national ports to verify compliance with international maritime rules, acting as a backstop when flag states fail to enforce standards.
Port Washington power station
The Port Washington power station is a natural gas-fired plant in Port Washington, Wisconsin; its coal-fired predecessor opened in 1935 and held a world efficiency record until 1948.
Porta Maggiore
Porta Maggiore, also called Porta Prenestina, is a monumental double arch in Rome where the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus aqueducts crossed two roads, built by Claudius in 52 CE.
Porta Tiburtina
Porta Tiburtina, also known as Porta San Lorenzo, is a gate in Rome's Aurelian Wall where the Via Tiburtina left the city, built around an Augustan arch of 5 BC that carried three aqueducts.
Portable air conditioner
A portable air conditioner is a wheeled, self-contained refrigeration unit that cools a single room, venting heat outdoors through an exhaust hose, usually at a window.
Portable application
A portable application is a software program that runs directly from removable media such as a USB flash drive without installation, keeping its settings with the program.
Portable Executable
The Portable Executable (PE) format, also called PE/COFF, is the Microsoft Windows file format for executables such as EXE and DLL files, introduced with Windows NT 3.1 in 1993.
Portable mass spectrometer
A portable mass spectrometer is a compact version of a mass spectrometer built for use outside the laboratory, trading some resolution and sensitivity for field use.
Portable media player
A portable media player, or MP3 player, is a battery-powered handheld device that stores and plays digital audio, video, and photos, succeeding the cassette Walkman in the late 1990s.
Portable toilet
A portable toilet, often called a porta-potty or port-a-john, is a movable, self-contained toilet with a chemical holding tank, common on construction sites and at events.
Portable water purification
Portable water purification, also known as point-of-use water treatment, is the treatment of drinking water away from a fixed supply, serving hikers, travelers, militaries, and emergency responders.
Portage Lake Lift Bridge
The Portage Lake Lift Bridge, officially the Houghton-Hancock Bridge, is a double-deck vertical-lift bridge completed in 1959 that carries US-41 and M-26 between Houghton and Hancock, Michigan.
Portal frame
A portal frame is a low-rise structural frame of columns and rafters joined by moment-resisting connections, spanning clear widths in warehouses and industrial buildings without internal bracing.
Portal method
The portal method is an approximate hand method of structural analysis, presented by A. Smith in 1915, that determines forces in building frames under lateral loads such as wind and earthquakes.
Portal North Bridge
The Portal North Bridge is a railroad bridge under construction over the Hackensack River in New Jersey, replacing the 1910 Portal Bridge as part of the Gateway Program.
Portcullis
A portcullis is a heavy grille of wood and metal, often weighing a tonne, lowered by chains from a chamber above to block a castle's gate passage.
Porter (company)
Porter, legally SmartShift Logistics Solutions, is an Indian on-demand logistics platform founded in Bengaluru in 2014, serving small businesses with mini trucks, two-wheelers, and three-wheelers.
Porter Airlines
Porter Airlines is a Canadian regional airline founded by Robert Deluce in 2006, based at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, known for complimentary drinks and no middle seats.
Porter's Lodge
Porter's Lodge: name of gatehouse buildings at institution entrances, staffed by a porter. Notable examples include Portsmouth dockyard (1708), Winchester Close (Grade I, C15), and Trinity College, Cambridge (c. 1490).
Portes (site)
Portes (site): historic coal-mining complex of Portes and Sénéchas, Gard, France; concession created 1822, company 1854, inclined-plane railway 1859-1867, four shafts, output up to 300,000 t/year, mining ended 1956.
Porthcurno Telegraph Station
Porthcurno Telegraph Station was a submarine cable landing station at Porthcurno, near Land's End in Cornwall, which from 1870 handled the British end of the telegraph chain to India.
Portico
A portico, plural porticoes, is an open structure with a roof supported by columns, built as an entrance to a large house or public building.
Porting
Porting, also called a software port, is the process of adapting software to run in a different computing environment, such as another operating system, while preserving its behavior.
Portland cement
Portland cement is the binder used in most concrete and mortar, patented by Joseph Aspdin in England in 1824 and named for its resemblance to Portland stone.