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 phenomena encountered in physics
• Transport, or movement of molecules or ions across cell membranes or via the bloodstream in biology, including active transport and passive transport
• 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).
• For media recording and playback, a transport is 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.

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