ETYM French porche, Latin porticus, from porta a gate, entrance, or passage. Related to Port a gate, and cf. Portico.
(Irregular plural: porches).
A structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance.

ETYM Italian, Latin porticus. Related to Porch.
A covered often columned area serving as a porch or entrance to a building.
In architecture, a porch with a pediment and columns.

The code name for a collection of graphical user interface components that runs uniformly on any native platform which supports Java VM.
A library of Java GUIs that run uniformly on any native platform that supports the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Swing Set components have largely supplanted Sun Microsystems’s Abstract Window Toolkit. See also Abstract Window Toolkit, graphical user interface, Java Virtual Machine. + prikaži više