Torrent

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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