portal

A site on the World Wide Web (WWW) that serves as a gateway or port of entry to the Internet.

A portal typically includes hyperlinks to news, weather reports, stock market quotes, entertainment, chat rooms, and so on. See also chat room, gateway, hyperlink, and WWW.

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• packet Internet groper (ping)
• packet layer protocol (PLP)
• Packet over SONET (POS)
• packet switch
• PACS (Personal Access Communications Services)
• padding
• PAD (Packet Assembler/Disassembler)
• page
• pager
• pager identification number (PID)
• pager identification number (PID)
• paging system
• paging system
• pair-gain
• Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
• PAL (Phase Alternate Line)
• PAM (Pulse Amplitude Modulation)
• PAMS (Perceptual Analysis Measurement System)
• panel switch
• PAN (Personal Area Network)
• PANS (Pretty Advanced New Services, Pretty Advanced Network Services, Peculiar And
• paper
• paperless office
• paperless office
• PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)