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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 via
teleportation
or similar means. Such portals are often found in
linking rooms
.
Portal
, a
television show
that ran on
G4techTV
.
Portal , a black death metal
musical group
.
See also
WikiProject
WikiPortal
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.
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