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port Defined
A port is a 16-bit number (range 1 through 65535) used by the protocols of the transport layer - the TCP and UDP protocols. Ports are used to address applications (services) which run on a computer and use the network.To port something, you translate the code for a program from one platform to another. You could port a program you wrote on a PC over to a Macintosh, for example.
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