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A Tor is a rock outcrop formed by weathering. Tor or TOR may also refer to:
[edit] Meteorology
[edit] Biology
- TOR (gene), or Target Of Rapamycin, a protein kinase
- Tor, a genus of mahseers; a group of Asian game fishes
[edit] Geography
- TOR, an abbreviation of 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 Federal Aviation Administration identifier for Torrington Municipal Airport
- Tor, Agra, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
[edit] Mythology
- An alternative name of the god Thor
- Sir Tor, a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend
[edit] Popular culture and entertainment
- The acronym for Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by BioWare.
- Tor (comics), 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
- Tor, an organic time machine, from Neal Asher's novel Cowl
- In Ghostbusters, a character says that Gozer (the main antagonist of the movie) once took the shape of "a large and moving tor"
- Tales of Rebirth, video game
- In the television show ReBoot, the main antagonist: Megabyte, lives in a tower called Silicon Tor
[edit] Sports
[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
- ToR, abbreviation for Top-of-Rack. In networking a description of the location for equipment
- Terminal-Owning Region, or TOR, is a CICS construct allowing for only terminals but not applications to reside in a CICS region
[edit] Other uses
- Tor Missile System, a Russian air defence system whose NATO designation is SA-15 Gauntlet
- Tor functor — in homological algebra, the derived functor of the tensor product (functor)
- Terms of Reference, describe the purpose and structure of a project, committee, meeting, negotiation, etc.
- Tornado Warning (TOR) - the Specific Area Message Encoding code for a tornado warning
- A tribe of the Pashtun people
- Tor Johnson (1903–1971), a Swedish-born professional wrestler and actor who gained cult fame by appearing in B-movies
- TOR or ToR. an abbreviation for the Tournament of Roses Parade
- Transport of Rockland, a transit operator in Rockland County, New York
- Transcript of Records
- Tor House, built by the poet Robinson Jeffers
- Tor Line, a Swedish shipping company
- Traditional own resources, a significant part of the European Union's budget
- TOR - Tertium ordo regularis (Third Order of Saint Francis)
- HNoMS Tor, a Norwegian Sleipner class destroyer, launched in 1939
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