Torrent

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 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)

    “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)