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captive portal

captive portal noun: a web page shown to new users of an access point before they can access the greater Internet.

Noun

captive portal (plural captive portals)

  1. A web page shown to new users of an access point before they can access the greater Internet.

Forms of captive portal

pluralcaptive portals

Questions about captive portal

What does captive portal mean?
Captive portal means a web page shown to new users of an access point before they can access the greater Internet.
What part of speech is captive portal?
Captive portal is a noun.
What is the plural of captive portal?
The plural of captive portal is captive portals.

Words near captive portal in the dictionary

  1. captive bolt pistols
  2. captive candidate
  3. captive candidates
  4. captive nation
  5. captive nations
  6. captive portal
  7. captive portals
  8. captived
  9. captively
  10. captives
  11. captiving

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