Harbor


 
 
Harbor

:See also the Harbour compiler, a compiler for the Clipper programming language.

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A harbor (AmE), harbour (CwE) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural. A man-made harbor will have sea walls or breakwaters and may require dredging. A natural harbor will be surrounded on most sides by land.

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Harbors and ports are often confused. A port is a man-made coastal or riverine facility where boats and ships can load and unload. It may consist of quays, wharfs, jetties, piers and slipways with cranes or ramps. A port may have magazine buildings or warehouses for storage of goods and a transport system, such as railway, road transport or pipeline transport facilities for relaying goods inland.

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During the D-Day operations of 1944, two artificial harbors (codenamed Mulberry) were built just off the invasion beaches.

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Natural harbors have long been of great strategic and economic importance. Many of the great cities of the world are located on a natural harbor.

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Harbour compiler: Harbour is a free software compiler for the xBase superset language often referred to as Clipper (the language that is implemented by the compiler CA-Clipper)....

Clipper programming language: Clipper is a computer programming language that is used to create software programs that originally operated primarily under DOS. Although it is a powerful general-purpose programming language, it was primarily used to create database/business programs....

AmE: AME is an abbreviation that can refer to:...


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Introduction
Ice-free harbors
Largest harbors
See also
 
FR: Port (marine)


 

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Pipeline transport (1) - Road transport (1) - 1944 (1) - D-Day (1) - Crane (1) - Slipway (1) - Railway (1) - Transport (1) - Software program (1) - Programming language (1) - Database (1) - DOS (1) - Beach (1) - Mulberry (1) - Clipper (1) -
 

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