Tor (disambiguation)

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Tor may refer to:

Contents 1 Biology 2 Business 3 Geography 4 Military 5 Music 6 Mythology 7 Popular culture 8 Religion 9 Sports 10 Technology 11 Other uses 12 See also

[edit] Biology

• TOR (gene), or Target Of Rapamycin, a protein kinase
• Tor, a genus of mahseers; a group of Asian game fishes

[edit] Business

• Terms of Reference, describe the purpose and structure of a project, committee, meeting, negotiation, etc.

[edit] Geography

• Tor (geography), a type of rock outcrop formed by weathering
• TOR, an abbreviation for Toronto
• The former name of the city Sloviansk, Ukraine
• El-Tor, a port on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt
• Tor, Spain, a small village in the Catalan part of the Pyrenees, close to Andorra
• TOR, an FAA identifier for Torrington Municipal Airport

[edit] Military

• Tor Missile System, a Russian air defence system whose NATO designation is SA-15 Gauntlet
• Tor (rifle), a Polish anti-materiel rifle

[edit] Music

• Touch of Red, a song by In Flames.

[edit] Mythology

• An alternative name of the god Thor
• Sir Tor, a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend

[edit] Popular culture

• Tor (comic book), by Joe Kubert
• Tor Books, a publishing company specialising in fantasy and science fiction
• Tor, the name of a fictional robot featured in the science fiction film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
• Tor, the name of a character in the books, The Hero and the Crown and the The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
• Tor, the alter ego of the eponymous main character, in the animated television series Mighty Mightor
• Tor the Shuttlezord, in the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
• Tor, the name of the varg's goddess from the book The Sight.

[edit] Religion

• T.O.R., The Third Order Regular of St. Francis

[edit] Sports

• Toronto Raptors (Abbreviation: TOR)
• Toronto Maple Leafs (Abbreviation: TOR)
• Toronto Blue Jays (Abbreviation: TOR)

[edit] Technology

• Telex Over Radio, a.k.a. radio-telex or NBDP (Narrow-Band Direct Printing), part of GMDSS.
• Tor (anonymity network) (The Onion Router), a software package formerly sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that enables its users to access websites and other internet services anonymously

[edit] Other uses

• A tribe of the Pashtun people
• Tor functor, a derived functor of the tensor product in mathematics
• Tor Johnson (1903–1971), a Swedish-born professional wrestler and actor who gained cult fame by appearing in B-movies
• TOR, Specific Area Message Encoding code for tornado warning
• TOR or ToR. an abbreviation for the Tournament of Roses Parade
• Transport of Rockland, a transit operator in Rockland County, New York
• Tales of Rebirth
• Transcript of Records
• TOR an acronym for The Old Republic, an upcoming Star Wars MMORPG made by BioWare
• Tor House, built by the poet Robinson Jeffers
• Tor Line, a Swedish shipping company.

[edit] See also

• Toor
• Torr

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