Transport (disambiguation)
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Transport can refer to any of the following:
- Transport in the sense of engineering and infrastructure; see also the List of transport topics
- Transport industry --a major sector of national and international economy's as diverse as pleasure yachts to railways, airlines to aerospace engineering.
- Transport phenomena encountered in physics
- Penal transportation, referring to sending persons abroad as punishment
- In computer science and electrical engineering, the term transport is also used to describe certain computer network protocols (see transport layer).
- The area containing buttons which control a type of media. i.e. Play, Stop, Pause buttons.
- See transport (recording) for a device that handles a particular physical storage medium itself, and extracts or records the information to and from the medium to (and from) an outboard set of processing electronics that the transport is connected to.
- In Payment processing a transport is a machine to capture document images and sort documents.
- Transportation in the geological context, referring to the movement of products of erosion, e.g. by a river, prior to their deposition as a sedimentary rock.
- Transport Canada
- Transport (typeface), a typeface used on British road signs.
- Transport a musical band
[edit] Scientific Uses
- Transport, or movement of molecules or ions across cell membranes or via the bloodstream in biology, including active transport and passive transport
- Electron transport
- Energy transport
- Momentum transport
- Exciton transport
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