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| If you are familiar with electronics, the term port should be a too familiar one. With electronics it is understood as any gateway which is used to lead data streams from and to the outside world. | |
| As everything is pretty virtual in software engineering, the metaphoric definition will hold: | |
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| A port can appear in many faces, being a network connection, a channel in a network (as with TCP/IP) or simply a printer to print the data to. |