# Portal

Portal often refers to:
Portal may also 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
* 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", 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 (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

* 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