Gate (disambiguation)
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The word gate can refer to:
- A gate is a point of entry to a space enclosed by walls, or an opening in a fence. Gates may prevent entry, or they may be merely decorative.
- In politics, the suffix -gate has been used to name a large number of public scandals lesser and greater, real or perceived, after the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s.
- In a transistor, particularly a field effect transistor or FET, the gate is the controlling terminal to which a voltage is applied to control the current passing between the Source and Drain.
- In electronic digital logic design, a logic gate is a logic function building block, such as and, or, not, nand, nor, xor (exclusive-or).
- GATE, (Portuguese for "Grupo de Ações Táticas Especiais"; "Special Tactical Actions Group") is a special police squad in Brazil.
- interstellar teleporter
- Rail gate
- GATE, General Architecture for Text Engineering, a human language processing system.
