Portal may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Gaming

  • Portal (series), a series of video games developed by Valve
  • Portal (video game), a 2007 video game, the first in the series
  • Portal 2, the 2011 sequel
  • Portal Stories: Mel, a mod for Portal 2
  • Portal Revolution, a mod for Portal 2
  • Portal Reloaded, a mod for Portal 2
  • Aperture Tag, a mod for Portal 2
  • Thinking with Time Machine, a mod for Portal 2
  • Portal (1986 video game), a 1986 computer game by Activision
  • Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
  • Portal (video game element), an element in video game design

Music

  • Portal (band), an Australian extreme metal band
  • Portal (album), a 1994 album by Wendy & Carl
  • "Portal", a 2014 song by Lights Little Machines
  • Portals (Arsonists Get All the Girls album), 2009
  • Portals (Sub Focus and Wilkinson album), 2020
  • Portals, a 2021 live album by Tesseract
  • "Portals", by Alan Silvestri, from the soundtrack for the film Avengers: Endgame
  • Portals (EP), a 2022 EP by Kirk Hammett
  • Portals (Melanie Martinez album), 2023

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Portal (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Portal fantasy, fantasy subgenre involving travel to another world
  • Portal (magic trick), an illusion performed by David Copperfield
  • Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs
  • Portal (sculptures), interactive art sculptures videoconferencing two cities
  • Vilnius–Lublin Portal, a 2021 interactive public art installation
  • New York–Dublin Portal, a 2024 interactive public art installation
  • Portals (initiative), a public art initiative that connects people in different world cities through real-time videoconferencing
  • The Portal (podcast), a podcast hosted by Eric Weinstein

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

  • Meta 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
  • Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California

Places

  • Portal, Arizona
  • Portal, Georgia
  • Portal, Nebraska
  • Portal, North Dakota
  • North Portal, a village in Saskatchewan adjacent to Portal, North Dakota
  • Portal Peak, a mountain in Canada
  • Portal Peak (Washington), a mountain in United States
  • Portal, Tarporley, a country house near Tarporley, Cheshire, England
  • Portal Bridge, over the Hackensack River in New Jersey
  • Portal Heights, former name for a railway station in Montreal, Canada

Organisations

  • Clube Atlético Portal, a football club based in Uberlândia, Brazil
  • Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England
  • Portals (paper makers), a UK paper making company

Other uses

  • Portal (architecture), an opening in a wall of a building, gate or fortification, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel
  • NCAA transfer portal, a database and compliance tool facilitating US college athletes who wish to change schools
  • Portal frame, a construction method
  • Portal stones, a type of stone monument
  • Portal (surname), shared by several notable people
  • 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
  • Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

See also

  • Wikipedia:Portal
  • Conduit (channeling)
  • The Portal (disambiguation)
  • Porthole, a window in the hull of a ship
  • Wormhole