Saturday, December 8, 2018

Torrent...

A torrent is a fast flowing stream.

Torrent or Torrents may also refer to:



Places

  • Torrent, Valencia, a city in Spain
  • Torrent, Girona, a Spanish village
  • Torrent Bay, New Zealand
  • Torrent Falls, an outdoor area in Kentucky, USA
  • Torrent River, which feeds into the bay
  • River Torrent, Northern Ireland

People

  • Ana Torrent (born 1966), Spanish actress
  • Marion Torrent (born 1992), French footballer
  • Ramon Torrents (born 1937), Spanish comic book artist
  • Stanislas Torrents (1839-1916), French painter

Animals

  • Torrent duck, a species of the family Anatidae
  • Torrent fish
  • Torrent frog, various unrelated frogs
  • Torrent robin, a bird species
  • Torrent salamander, a family of salamanders

Arts and entertainment

  • Torrent (1926 film), starring Greta Garbo
  • The Torrents, a 1955 Australian play
  • Torrent (play) (狂流, Kuángliú), a Chinese play about the life of Tian Han
  • 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 Cables
    • Torrent Pharmaceuticals
    • Torrent Power

Computing

  • BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol
  • Torrent file, stores metadata used for BitTorrent

Other uses

  • Torrent (stream), a stream with a high seasonal flow variation
  • Pontiac Torrent, a crossover SUV sold by Pontiac from 2005 to 2009
  • Torrent (ship), an American sailing ship wrecked in 1868
  • Les Torrents, the sports teams of the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

See also

  • Torrente (disambiguation)
  • Torrentz, a meta-search engine for BitTorrent 

See Torrent : http://bit.ly/Torrent_wiki

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