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Porting

Port \Port\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ported; p. pr. & vb. n. Porting.] [F. porter, L. portare to carry. See Port demeanor.]

  1. To carry; to bear; to transport. [Obs.]

    They are easily ported by boat into other shires.
    --Fuller.

  2. (Mil.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.

    Began to hem him round with ported spears.
    --Milton.

    Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed as above.

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porting

vb. (present participle of port English)

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Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library). The term is also used when software/hardware is changed to make them usable in different environments.

Software is portable when the cost of porting it to a new platform is significantly less than the cost of writing it from scratch. The lower the cost of porting software, relative to its implementation cost, the more portable it is said to be.

Usage examples of "porting".

An infantryman still aboard his grounded skimmer caught the shimmer of a Molt tele porting in along the vector for which Hawker had warned.

The autochthons could-given time to approach the position instead of tele porting directly from some distant location--home on very small crystals indeed.

He handled the gun in tele porting more easily than he did its physical weight in the material world.

The sedimentary rocks which could be cut or leached away into caves by groundwater were of no use as beacons for tele porting autochthons--and thus of no use in training young Molts to use their unique abilities.

The same stone angles were just what the doctor ordered to block sniper fire--and as for anybody tele porting directly into the cave, they were cold meat as soon as the Loots equipment picked them up.

Hawker said as he ported his weapon again, making no apology for aiming it toward a tele porting autochthon, even one in Bournes lap.

Molt tele porting into the confusion of a battle or hunt who had to receive a great deal of data about his immediate surroundings in the first instant.

Hawker must have made a mistake that would give a clear shot to the tele porting autochthon.

But tele porting Molts were vulnerable before they were dangerous, and Radescu had been impressed by the way bursts of airfoils had swept patches of ground bare.

Molt were tele porting to a point nearby, but he was too keyed up to accept the stress of inaction.

In the stillness that replaced the howl of shells, small arms sizzled audibly among the grumble of diesels as soldiers responded to tele porting Molts--or to their own nervousness.

Molts tele porting to positions readied to meet the attack found that even on the flanking slopes where the warriors were not blanketed by smoke, their gun sights showed featureless shades of gray instead of Oltenian vehicles.

A Molt with a buzz bomb on his shoulder, ready to launch, appeared beside the tree stump The smoke did nothing to prevent warriors from tele porting into the valley to attack.

The autochthon had already disappeared, tele porting away with a smile which was probably an accident of physiognomy.