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Definition 1
General: Agency or mechanism that provides access to another agency, system, or information.
Definition 2
Computer networks: Hardware/software device (such as a router) that connects and transfers data between two networks employing different communications protocols.
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gateway is in the Data Management, Communications, & Networks and Internet & World Wide Web subjects.
gateway appears in the definitions of the following terms: portal, common gateway interface (CGI), vortal, catenet, topology and wide area network (WAN)
gateway appears in these other terms: information gateway, gateway city, payment gateway
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