Meaning & use
Ported
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Adapted software or a game to run on a different computer system or platform than the one it was originally built for.
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The developers ported the classic game to modern consoles last year.
The application was ported from Windows to run natively on Linux.
A note on using this word
Also used outside computing to mean 'carried', as in luggage being 'ported' by hand, though the software sense is now far more common.
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