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Port of Sacramento The Port of Sacramento is an inland port located 79 nautical miles northeast of San Francisco, and is centered in one of the richest agricultural and industrial regions in the world. Cargo ships access the Port of Sacramento through San Francisco Bay and passage up the Sacramento River and the Sacramento deep water channel.
Port of San Francisco The Port of San Francisco lies on the western edge of the San Francisco Bay at the Golden Gate. It has been called one of the three great natural harbors in the world, but it took two long centuries for navigators from Spain and England to find the anchorage originally called Yerba Buena.
Port of San Nicolás de los Arroyos The Port of San Nicolás de los Arroyos is a port on the western shore of the lower course of the Paraná River (Km 343) in Argentina, located in the jurisdiction of the city of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province. It has a depth of 34 feet, and is capable of serving large vessels coming upstream from the Atlantic Ocean through the Río de la Plata.
Port of Singapore The Port of Singapore refers to the collective facilities and terminals that conduct maritime trade handling functions in Singapore's harbours and which handle Singapore's shipping. Currently the world's busiest port in terms of total shipping tonnage, it also handles a quarter of the world's shipping containers as the world's busiest container port, and half of the world's annual supply of crude oil.
Port of Spain Port of Spain, with a municipal population of 49,031 (2000 census)Table 1, 2000 Census, from Central Statistical Office, Government of Trinidad and Tobago and a metropolitan population estimated at 269,9232006 projections from World Gazeteer; source for the original estimate and method of calculation not supplied. residents, is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's fourth largest town by population only, after Chaguanas, San Fernando, San Juan.
Port of Stockton The Port of Stockton is a major inland deep water port in Stockton, California located on the San Joaquin River before it joins the Sacramento River to empty into San Francisco Bay. The port sits on about 1,200 acres, and occupies an island in the San Joaquin Delta, and a portion of a neighborhood known as Boggs Tract.
Port of the Americas (Port of Ponce) The Port of the Americas Rafael Cordero Santiago is a megaport currently under construction in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The project aims to convert the current Port of Ponce into an international shipping hub similar to, though not as large as, the megaports located in Singapore and Rotterdam.
Port of Tampa The Port of Tampa is located on the western coast or Suncoast of Florida, exactly 35 miles from open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The boundaries of the Port district includes parts of Tampa Bay, Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, Hillsborough River, and Old Tampa Bay.
Port of Tanjung Pelepas The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (abbreviation: PTP) is a port for container ships located on the eastern mouth of the Pulai River in south-western Johor, Malaysia. Receiving its maiden vessel on 10 October 1999 on a three-month trial operation, it set a world record as the fastest growing port with 1 million TEUs (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units) of containers handled after 571 days of operations.
Port of Townsville Port of Townsville is a seaport in Townsville, Queensland It is the biggest port in Northern Australia after Port of Darwin in Darwin, Northern Territory. Port of Townsville handles numerous imports and exports mainly, Mineral Ores, Fertiliser, Concentrates, Sugar and Motor Vehicles.
Port of Turku The Port of Turku is the oldest port in Finland, and it is mentioned in the Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi's 1154 book Kitab Rudjar. The port spans a wide area on the southern coastline of the city of Turku, from the mouth of the River Aura to the district of Pansio.
Port of Varna Port of Varna (map) is the largest seaport complex in Bulgaria. It is located on the Black Sea's west coast, on Varna Bay and in the adjacent Lake Varna and Lake Beloslav, and also comprises the outlying port of Balchik.
Port of Victoria (Texas) The Port of Victoria, Texas was opened in 1968 by creation of a 35-mile barge canal (dredged to a depth of 9 feet) linking Victoria, Texas to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW). (Ironically, it was Victoria that held the first meeting in 1905 which led to the creation of the GIWW.
Port of Zeebrugge The Port of Zeebrugge is a large container, bulk cargo, new vehicles, and passenger ferry terminal port in Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium, handling over 30 million tones of cargo annually. This includes over 10 million tonnes each of both roll-on/roll-off and containerized cargo.
Port operator A port operator is port authority or company that contracts with the port authority to move cargo through a port at a contracted minimum level of productivity. They may be state-owned (particularly for port authorities) or privately run.
Port Olry Port Olry is a Francophone town (population 1300) on Espiritu Santo island in the Sanma Province of Vanuatu. Known for its verdant green hills, superb white sand beaches, and snorkeling, the village offers access via an underwater sandbar to two local nature reserve islands at low tide.
Port Orange Florida East Coast Railway Freight Depot The Port Orange Florida East Coast Railway Freight Depot (also known as the Central Pump & Supply Company) is a historic Florida East Coast Railway depot in Port Orange, Florida, United States. It is located at 415C Herbert Street, off U.
Port Orford, Oregon Port Orford is a city in Curry County, Oregon, United States. It is located on the southern Oregon Coast, at the northern end of what coastal Oregonians call the Banana Belt, due to the fact that the weather from Port Orford south is warmer and noticeably different than the weather north of Cape Blanco.
Port Orchard Port Orchard is the strait, part of Washington state's Puget Sound, that separates Bainbridge Island on the east from the Kitsap Peninsula on the west. It extends from Liberty Bay and Agate Pass in the north to Sinclair Inlet and Rich Passage in the south.
Port Penrhyn Port Penrhyn (Welsh Porth Penrhyn) is a harbour located just east of Bangor in north Wales at the mouth of the River Cegin. It was formerly of great importance as the main port for the export of slate from the Penrhyn Quarry, the largest slate quarry in the world.
Port Perry High School Port Perry High School is located in Port Perry, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. The school has students in grades 9-12 and offers a wide range of academic and extra-curricular activities, like an outstanding music program, filled with several assorted bands and choirs, world class rugby teams, every year going on a different worldly trip,astounding students and teachers that are heavily incorporated into extra curricular activities, Reach for the Top, and many others.
Port Phillip Association The Port Phillip Association (originally the "Geelong and Dutigalla Association"]"Port Phillip Association", Encyclopedia Britannica online was an early nineteenth century investment and pastoral company. Some fifteen of the leading colonists of Tasmania (formerly Van Diemens Land) formed a company in early 1835 with a view to purchasing a large tract of land from the aborigines on the unsettled south coast of Australia, helping found Melbourne and the future State of Victoria in the process.
Port Plaza Mall (Washington Commons) Washington Commons, formerly known as Port Plaza Mall was once an urban shopping mall and is now a multi-use facilty located in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin in the United States. It was open in 1977, expanded in 1981, given a new name and owner in 2001, and a makeover in 2002.
Port Richmond, Staten Island Port Richmond is a neighborhood situated on the North Shore of Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, USA. It is along the waterfront of the Kill Van Kull, with the southern terminus of the Bayonne Bridge serving as the boundary between it and Mariners Harbor, the neighborhood which borders it on the west.
Port River Port River () is a river that runs through Port Adelaide, a part of the capital of South Australia, Adelaide. The River separates the Le Fevre Peninsula, Adelaide’s suburbs and Torrens Island, and is the sea entrance to the port facilities of Adelaide.
Port Rowan, Ontario Port Rowan is a town in Norfolk County, Ontario on Lake Erie, adjacent to Long Point. This quaint little lakeside community has a population of just under 1,000 and sports a number of small stores and a growing retirement population.
Port Royal (band) Port Royal is a Genoa, Italy-based post-rock band started in the year 2000 by Attilio Buzzone (Guitar) and Ettore Di Roberto (Keyboards). They would soon be joined by Ettore's brother Michele Di Roberto (Drums), Emilio Pozzolini (Keyboards, Sampling), and Giulio Corona (Bass).
Port Royal Experiment The Port Royal Experiment was a program begun during the American Civil War in which former slaves successfully worked on the land abandoned by plantation owners. In 1861, the Union liberated the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and their main harbor, Port Royal.
Port Royal, Nova Scotia Port Royal was a small colonial outpost on the western coast of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It was located on the north shore of the Annapolis Basin, a sub-basin of the Bay of Fundy near the present-day town of Annapolis Royal.
Port Royal, Tennessee Port Royal, Tennessee is a community on the border of Montgomery County and Robertson County in Tennessee. It is home to Port Royal State Park, which once held the Port Royal Covered Bridge, but has since been destroyed from recent floods and tornadoes, and has not been restored.
Port Ryerse, Ontario Port Ryerse is a fishing village (hamlet, actually) in Norfolk County just slightly southwest of Port Dover where people from Southwestern Ontario rent cottages and fish for pleasure during the summer months (Victoria Day through mid-October). There are very few year-round residents and most of the people here drive to Port Dover or Simcoe to purchase groceries and other goods, although a historic general store was once present up until September 2004, when it sadly caught fire and burned down.
Port security Port security refers to all homeland security and counterterrorism activities that fall within the port and maritime domain. It includes the protection of the seaports themselves, the protection and inspection of the cargo moving through the ports, and security in the maritime domain.
Port Safaga Port Safaga, also known as Bur Safaga and Safaga (Arabic: سفاجا), is a town in Egypt, on the coast of the Red Sea, located 53 km (33 miles) south of Hurghada. This small port is also a tourist area that consists of several bungalows and rest houses, including the Safaga Hotel, with a capacity of 48 rooms (126 beds).
Port Safety (USCG) The Port Safety mission has a long history in the United States Coast Guard. It was expanded during the 20th century to include the protection of ports, harbors, vessels, and waterfront facilities against accidents, negligence, and sabotage.
Port Said Port The Port Said port is situated on the Northern entrance of the Gulf of Suez. It is considered one of the main Egyptian ports due to its distinguished location at the crossroad of the most important world sea trade route Between East and Europe via Suez Canal, and the most extensive transshipment port in the world.
Port Saint Charles The Port Saint Charles marina is an affluent and upscale luxury marina development situated on the western coast of Barbados. Found within the parish of Saint Peter, the marina is in close proximity to the main area of Speightstown in Six Mens Bay.
Port San Carlos Port San Carlos is located on the northern bank of the San Carlos Water on the Western coast of East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands. it is sometimes nicknamed "KC" after former owner Keith Cameron.
Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal Port Shepstone is situated on the mouth of the largest river on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the Mzimkulu River (the great home of all rivers). Port Shepstone, 120 km south of Durban is the administrative, educational and commercial centre for southern Natal.
Port Stanton, Ontario Port Stanton is a small community located on Sparrow Lake in central Ontario, Canada, in the township of Severn, just north of Orillia, Ontario along the Trent-Severn Waterway. The lake was once home to many summer hotels, drawing guests from all over Ontario and the northern United States.
Port State Port State refers to that authority under which a country exercises regulatory control over the commercial vessel which is registered under another country’s flag. This authority only exists while those vessels are operating within that country’s territorial waters.
Port State Control PORT STATE CONTROL (PSC) - The inspection of foreign ships in other national ports by PSC officers (surveyors) for the purpose of verifying that the competency of the master and officers onboard, the condition of a ship and its equipment comply with the requirements of international conventions (e.g.
Port Sunlight railway station Port Sunlight railway station serves the Port Sunlight area of the Wirral, England, a so-called "model village" built for the workers of the nearby Lever Brothers soap factory. The station is situated on the Chester and Ellesmere Port branches of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.
Port tower complex The Port Tower planned for Karachi, the financial capital of Pakistan, with collaboration from investers from abroad, the Karachi Port Trust is taking on a Rs. 20 billion project, the Port Tower Complex, is said to be 1,947 ft (593 m)high.
Port triggering Port triggering is a specialized form of port forwarding in which outbound traffic on predetermined ports ("triggering ports") causes inbound traffic to specific incoming ports to be dynamically forwarded to the initiating host while the outbound ports are in use. This allows computers behind a NAT-enabled router dynamic hosts on a local network to provide services which would normally require a static host (a host with an unchanging network address).
Port Talbot Port Talbot (Welsh also Aberafan or Porth Talbot) is an industrial town in the traditional county of Glamorgan, south Wales, UK, with a population of approximately 50,000. Port Talbot is also the name of an electoral ward and a community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, which are closely related to the town.
Port Talbot (district) Port Talbot was one of the four local government districts of West Glamorgan, Wales from 1974 to 1996. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1972, from the municipal borough of Port Talbot and the urban district of Glyncorrwg, all previously in the administrative county of Glamorgan.
Port Talbot Steelworks Port Talbot Steelworks is a large steel production plant in Port Talbot, Wales. The works cover a large area of land which dominates the south of the town with the blast furnaces and steel products plant building being major landmarks visible from both the M4 Motorway and the South Wales Main Line when passing through the town.
Port Town Port Town is a fictional city in the F-Zero series and is rightfully called the "prosperous hub of civilization and affluence". It is famously known as an intergalactic trades center and the home of bounty hunter and F-ZERO racer, Captain Falcon, who lives off the coast on a chain of islands.
Port Townsend Bay Port Townsend Bay is a marine inlet off Admiralty Inlet at the northeastern extreme of the Olympic Peninsula in the American state of Washington. Originally named Port Townsend by British Captain George Vancouver in 1792, the name Port Townsend Bay is currently used to distinguish the bay from the city of Port Townsend that arose on its northwestern shore.
Port Townsend Film Festival The Port Townsend Film Festival was started in 1999 by a group of volunteers in Port Townsend, Washington, United States. The festival is billed annually as "A film lover's block party celebrating great films and filmmakers.
Port Union, Ohio Port Union is an unincorporated community of western West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio on State Route 747 about three miles north of Springdale and three miles southeast of Hamilton. The town was laid out in 1827 by William Elliott alongside the turning basin for the Miami and Erie Canal and was about midway between Crescentville and Hamilton on the canal.
Port Victoria, South Australia Port Victoria () is a town on the Spencer Gulf coast of Yorke Peninsula. Like many other coastal towns on the peninsula, it has a jetty and used to be a thriving port for the export of grain to England, India, and South Africa, and import of fertiliser and other goods.
Port Vila Port Vila (co-ordinates ) is the capital city of Vanuatu. Situated on the south coast of the island of Efate, in Shefa Province, the city has a population of about 30,000, or around 65% of the province's population.
Port Waikato Port Waikato is on the south bank of the Waikato River at its outflow into the Tasman Sea, in northern New Zealand. Now a small town with a population of under 300, it was an important port during the Maori wars of the 19th century.
Port Wakefield Road Port Wakefield Road is an important highway connecting the South Australian capital, Adelaide to Yorke Peninsula, Port Augusta, northern and western South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It is designated National Highway A1 and a part of the National Highway.
Port Wallace, Nova Scotia Port Wallace is a community of eastern Dartmouth within the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia that lies between Lake Micmac and Lake Charles. The main street called the Waverley Road is also Nova Scotia Route 318.
Port Washington (LIRR station) Port Washington is the terminus of the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in Port Washington, New York. The station is located on Main Street, between Haven Avenue and South Bayles Avenue, just West of Middle Neck Road, and is 19.
Port-a-Cath A Port-a-Cath® is a type of device for intravenous access in patients who require frequent or continuous administration of intravenous substances. The major users of Port-a-Caths are oncology patients but recently, they have been adapted for treating hemodialysis patients as well.
Port-an-Eorna Port-An-Eorna is the Scottish Gaelic name for the small settlement of Barleyport, situated almost midway between Plockton and the Kyle of Lochlash, in Ross-shire, Scotland, in the Western Highlands. Port-An-Eorna was once a fishing community near Duirinish, an area of common grazing for sheep and Highland cattle.
Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince, (Pòtoprens in Kréyòl), population 1,277,000 (2006), is the capital and largest city of Haiti. Growth, especially in crowded slums in nearby plains and hillsides, has raised the population of the Port-au-Prince area to between 2.
Port-aux-Français Port-aux-Français is the capital settlement of the French Kerguelen Islands in the far southern Indian Ocean on the Gulf of Morbihan. Created in 1944, it has about 60 winter inhabitants which can rise to more than 120 in the summer.
Port-Cros National Park Port-Cros National Park (French: Parc National de Port-Cros) is a French national park established on the Mediterranean island of Port-Cros, east of Toulon. It also administers natural area in surrounding locales.
Port-Menier, Quebec Port-Menier is the main town on Anticosti Island in Quebec, Canada, the port village was built in the late 1800s by French chocolate maker Henri Menier. A large, sparsely populated island, it was once owned by explorer Louis Jolliet.
Port-Royal Logic Port-Royal Logic, or Logique Port-Royal, is the common name of La logique, ou l'art de penser, an important textbook on logic first published anonymously in 1662 by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, two prominent members of the so-called Jansenist movement, centered around Port-Royal. Blaise Pascal likely contributed considerable portions of the text.
Port7Alliance Port7alliance was a North American hacker group responsible for production of the internet based magazine Radical Future. Radical Future's presence as an electronic magazine was of cultural significance to the online American hacker community and is widely respected as being the first professionally formatted magazine to focus not only on the technical aspects of computer hacking but libertarian socialist political issues as well.
Porta Alpina Porta Alpina is a proposed railway station to be built in the middle of the 57 kilometre long Gotthard Base Tunnel which is currently under construction in southern Switzerland. Porta Alpina would be located near a crossover between the northbound and southbound train running tunnels, and would be linked to the surface via elevator shafts nearly one kilometre long, employing shafts built near the village of Sedrun for the tunnel construction.
Porta Capena Porta Capena was a gate in the Servian Wall near Caelian Hill, in Rome, formerly a sacred forest where Numa Pompilius and Egeria met. It was one of the main entries to the city of Rome, since it opened on the Appian Way.
Porta Coeli (Moravia) Porta Coeli is a twelfth-century convent and church in Tišnov, Moravia, Czech Republic, after which the asteroid 3276 Porta Coeli is named. Situated in the valley of the Svratka, this Cistercian convent was founded in 1233 by Queen Constance, widow of King Otakar I.
Porta Coeli (Puerto Rico) Built in 1606 the Porta Coeli ("Gateway to Heaven") cathedral is one of the oldest church structures in the western hemisphere. Located in San German, Puerto Rico, it was restored by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and now serves as a museum of religious paintings and wooden carvings dating back from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Porta Trigemina The Porta Trigemina was one of the main gates in the ancient 4th century Servian Wall of Rome, Italy. The gate no longer exists, but it is frequently mentioned by ancient authors as standing between the north end of the Aventine Hill and the Tiber River, probably near the Forum Boarium.
Porta Westfalica Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-LĂĽbbecke in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Weser, near the Porta Westfalica gorge, where the river runs through the passage between the mountain chains of the Wiehengebirge in the west and the Weserbergland in the east.
Portability (social security) The Portability of social security benefits is the ability to preserve, maintain, and transfer acquired social security rights and social security rights in the process of being acquired from one private, occupational, or public social security scheme to another without losing their contributions (Cruz 2004).
Portability testing Portability testing refers to the process of testing the ease with which a software component can be moved from one environment to another. This is typically measured in terms of the maximum amount of effort permitted.
Portable application A portable application, or portable app for short, is a software program that does not require any kind of formal installation onto a computer's permanent storage device to be executed, and can be stored on a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM, USB flash drive, flash card, or even a floppy disk, enabling it to be used on multiple computers. This does not mean that it can be taken and used on a different operating system, processing platform, or another computer with completely different hardware (i.
Portable art Prehistoric portable art included small mobile pieces that could be carried from place to place. Though the game hunted for food was a reoccurring subject within portable art, the over 10,000 pieces that have been discovered exhibit a great diversity in terms of scale, subject, use, date of creation, and media.
Portable Alpha Portable Alpha is an investment management term which refers to a special kind of investment diversification. For instance, a diversified stock portfolio reduces the risk of financial loss by approximating the growth of the overall stock market.
Portable Antiquities Scheme The Portable Antiquities Scheme or PAS is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme was begun in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales.
Portable building A portable building or a demountable building (Australian English) is a manufactured building that is built off-site and moved in upon completion of site and utility work. Sometimes called a modular building, portable buildings can be different in that they are used more on a temporary basis as in a temporary classroom.
Portable classroom A portable classroom (in Australian English a demountable) is a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide additional classroom space where there is a shortage of capacity. Such a classroom would be installed much like a mobile home, with utilities often being attached to the main building to provide light and heat for the room.
Portable cord A portable cord, which is also known as portable cordage or flexible cord, is a cable with multiple conductors used for functions requiring flexibility. The bendable cord can be employed for power in a range of applications, such as operating motors in small and large tools, equipment, power extensions, appliances and machinery.
Portable C Compiler The Portable C Compiler (also known as pcc or sometimes pccm - portable C compiler machine) was an early compiler for the C programming language written by Stephen C. Johnson of Bell Labs in mid-1970s It was very influential at its time as one of the first compilers that could easily be adapted to output code for different computer architectures.
Portable Collision Avoidance System PCAS, which stands for Portable Collision Avoidance System, was coined Zaon Flight Systems for technology similar in function to TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System). TCAS is the industry standard for commercial collision avoidance systems but PCAS is gaining recognition as an effective means of collision avoidance for general aviation and is in use the world over by independent pilots in personally owned or rented light aircraft as well as by flight schools and flying clubs.
Portable Computer and Communications Association The Portable Computer and Communications Association formed in June 1992 as a forum for participants in mobile communication to share information about technological advancements. Official incorporation occurred in May 1993.
Portable Content Format The DVB's Portable Content Format (PCF) is a data format designed by the DVB project for the description of interactive digital television (iTV) services. It is intended to support the business-to-business interchange of interactive content and to enable deployment on multiple target platforms with a minimum amount of re-authoring.
Portable desk The portable desk has not one but many forms. In a sense, the portable desk is a long-lost ancestor of the portable computer, and the modern laptop could be considered an atavistic grandchild of the 19th-century Lap desk.
Portable Distributed Objects Portable Distributed Objects, or PDO, is a programming API for creating object oriented code that runs anywhere on a network of computers. It was created using the OpenStep system, whose use of Objective-C made the package very easy to write.
Portable Document Format Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open file format created and controlled by Adobe Systems, for representing two-dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent fixed-layout document format. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2D document (and, with the advent of Acrobat 3D, embedded 3D documents) that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics that compose the document.
Portable employer of record A portable employer of record (PER) acts as a service that offers an engagement channel to connect with internally recruited independent contractors within a business. A PER can be described as a traditional office - with the support of departments such as a contracts department, finance group, a human resources department, a payrolling team, benefits managers, collections agents, etc.
Portable Executable The Portable Executable (PE) format is a file format for executables, object code, and DLLs, used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems. The term "portable" refers to the format's portability across all 32-bit (and by extension 64-bit) Windows operating systems.
Portable Font Resource A Portable Font Resource (PFR) is an outline font standard developed by Bitstream that compactly encodes font for use in web pages through their TrueDoc system. TrueDoc was natively supported in Netscape Navigator 4, but was discontinued in Netscape Navigator 6 and Mozilla because Netscape could not release Bitsream's source code.
Portable Game Notation Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a computer-processible format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data); many chess programs recognize this extremely popular format due to its accessibility by ordinary ascii editors, including word processors capable of importing and exporting plain ASCII.
Portable hole In Dungeons & Dragons and in cartoon physics, a portable hole is a magical device that can be used to contravene the normal laws of physics. It resembles a circular black cloth that could be placed on a surface to create a hole.
Portable media player A Portable Multimedia Player (PMP) is a hard disk or flash memory based electronic device, such as an "MP3 player", which is capable of storing and playing files in one or more media formats. This device is also sometimes referred to as an MP4 Player, named after the popular MP4 video/audio file type often played.
Portable object (computing) In distributed programming, a portable object is an object which can be accessed through a normal method call while possibly residing in memory on another computer. It is portable in the sense that it moves from machine to machine, irrespective of operating system or computer architecture.
Portable Object Adapter Portable Object Adapter (POA) - The CORBA object, responsible for the splitting the server side remote invocation handler into the remote Object and its Servant. The object is exposed for the remote invocations, while the servant contains the methods that are actually handling the requests.
Portable pixmap The portable pixmap file format (PPM), the portable graymap file format (PGM) and the portable bitmap file format (PBM) specify rules for exchanging graphics files. They provide very basic functionality and serve as a least-common-denominator for converting pixmap, graymap, or bitmap files between different platforms.
Portable People Meter The Portable People Meter (sometimes mistakenly "Personal People Meter") or PPM, is a device developed by Arbitron to measure how many people are listening (or at least exposed) to individual radio stations and television stations, including cable TV. The PPM is worn like a pager, and detects hidden audio tones within a station or network's audio stream, logging each time it finds such a signal.
Portable Sanitation Association International The Portable Sanitation Association International (PSAI) is an international trade association dedicated to expanding and improving portable sanitation services and facilities worldwide. It has its headquarters in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Portable Sound Format A Portable Sound Format (PSF) file is a sound data file (akin to NSF from the Nintendo Entertainment System, and other console related sound formats) ripped directly from video games from a variety of game consoles. The format was originally used for Sony PlayStation video games.
Portable Standard Lisp Portable Standard Lisp (PSL) was a tail-recursive dynamically bound dialect of Lisp inspired by its predecessor, Standard Lisp and the Portable Lisp Compiler. It was developed by researchers at the University of Utah in 1980, which released PSL 3.

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