The naming conventions between switches can often get mixed up, but trunking is generally the term used by Cisco for a single connection which is allowing through multiple VLANs between two devices. Trunking has to be set up on both switches for that port (or ports) along with configuring which VLANs will be allowed through that trunk. If memory serves me the most common method of this was dotq tagging.
And that's what is also used to describe this type of port in a lot of other brand switches including HP. A trunk in an HP server is the name given to a group of link aggregation ports. In HP switches configured for VLANs, a port can either be Tagged or Untagged for a specific VLAN. Untagged ports do not have the VLAN identifier added to the packet frame, so these would be used for connections to endpoint computers (switchport mode access for Cisco). However, when VLAN information has to be passed along with a packet onto another switch or router, it has to be Tagged with the VLAN identifier, meaning it would be a Tagged port (trunk with dotq for that VLAN number in a Cisco switch.)
bill001g please forgive me if I screwed this up and feel free to correct me on my limited Cisco memory!