ELI5: In computer networking, what is a port?

I often see that network settings have a field for logical port. What is this field.referring to?

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Let me know if I am off base here, but could you say that a computer in this respect is like a call center? You call the main number, and to get help with a particular service(process) you also would provide an extension(port number) ?

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