Torrent may refer to:
Places:
- Torrent, Valencia, a city in Spain
- Torrent, Girona, a Spanish village
- Torrent Bay, New Zealand
- Torrent River, which feeds into the bay
- River Torrent, Northern Ireland
- Torrent Falls, an outdoor area in Kentucky, USA
People:
- Ana Torrent (born 1966), Spanish actress
- Marion Torrent (born 1992), French footballer
Animals:
- Torrent Duck, a species of the family Anatidae
- Torrent frog, various unrelated frogs
- Torrent salamander, a family of salamanders
- Torrent Robin, a bird species
- Torrent fish
Computing:
- BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol
- Torrent file, stores metadata used for BitTorrent
Entertainment:
- Torrent (1926 film), starring Greta Garbo
- Torrent (TV series), a Canadian show
- Torrent (comics), Marvel Comics character, the daughter of Wolverine and Storm
Businesses:
- Torrent Group, an Indian business house, and its subsidiary companies:
- Torrent Pharmaceuticals
- Torrent Power
- Torrent Cables
Others:
- Pontiac Torrent, a crossover SUV sold by Pontiac from 2005 to 2009
- Torrent (stream), a stream with a high seasonal flow variation
- Torrent (ship), an American sailing ship wrecked in 1868
- Torrentz, a meta-search engine for BitTorrent
Famous quotes containing the word torrent:
“The flies swarmed on the putrid vulva, then
A black tumbling rout would seethe
Of maggots, thick like a torrent in a glen....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“The torrent of the reaching shade
Broke shadow into all its parts,
What then had been of shadow made
Found exigence in fits and starts....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Mixed in one mighty torrent did appear,
Some flying from the thing they feared, and some
Seeking the object of another’s fear;”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)