Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to:

Places

* Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain * Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city * Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano * Tor Bay, Devon, England * Tor River, Western New Guinea, Indonesia

Science and technology

* ''Tor'' (fish), a genus of fish commonly known as mahseers *

Target of rapamycin The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), also referred to as the mechanistic target of rapamycin, and sometimes called FK506-binding protein 12-rapamycin-associated protein 1 (FRAP1), is a kinase that in humans is encoded by the ''MTOR'' gene ...

, a regulatory enzyme * Tor functor, in mathematics * Tor (network), an Internet communication method for enabling online anonymity ** The Tor Project, a software organization that maintains the Tor network and the related Tor Browser

People

Tor (given name) Tor (Þor) is a Nordic masculine given name derived from the name of the Norse god Thor. It may refer to *Tor Ahlsand (born 1931), Norwegian Olympic rower *Tor Albert Ersdal (born 1972), Norwegian Olympic rower *Tor Arneberg (1928–2015), Norwegia ...

, a Nordic masculine given name * Tor (surname) * Tor Johnson, stage name of Swedish professional wrestler and actor Karl Erik Tore Johansson (1902 or 1903–1971) *

Tor (musician) Tor Sjogren, who records mononymously as Tor, is a Canadian electronic musician from Vancouver, British Columbia, who won the Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022 for his album ''Oasis Sky''. He began his career i ...

, Canadian electronic musician Tor Sjogren

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Tor (comics), a prehistoric human character * Tor, a character in the book ''

The Hero and the Crown ''The Hero and the Crown'' is a fantasy novel written by Robin McKinley and published by Greenwillow Books in 1984. It is the winner of the 1985 Newbery Medal award. This story focuses on "Aerin Dragon-Killer", also known as "Aerin Firehair", the ...

'' * Tor, a character in the animated television series '' Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor'' * Sir Tor, one of the Knights of the Round Table

In print

* ''Tor'', 1944 Dutch novel by Gerard Walschap * '' Tor.com'', an online science fiction and fantasy magazine

Other arts, entertainment, and media

The One Ring Roleplaying Game ''The One Ring Roleplaying Game'' is a tabletop role-playing game set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, set at the time between '' The Hobbit'' and '' The Lord of the Rings''. Designed by Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi, the game was init ...

("TOR"), a tabletop role-playing game set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth * TheOneRing.net, a fandom website for Middle-earth-related topics

Companies

* Tor Air, a former Swedish charter airline * Tor Books, a publishing company * Tor Line, a former Swedish shipping company

Military

* HNoMS ''Tor'', several Norwegian Navy craft *

Tor (rifle) The WKW Tor or ''Wilk'' (Wolf) is a modern anti-materiel and/or sniper rifle produced in Poland by the Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów factory. The nickname "WKW Tor" stands for Wielkokalibrowy Karabin Wyborowy or Large Caliber Sniper Rifle. Its mil ...

, a Polish sniper rifle *

Tor missile system The Tor (russian: Тор; en, torus) is an all-weather, low- to medium-altitude, short-range surface-to-air missile system designed for destroying airplanes, helicopters, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and short-range ballistic th ...

, a Russian anti-aircraft weapon

Other uses

* Tor (rock formation), a rock outcrop or hill * Tor, Toowoomba, a heritage listed villa at Queensland, Australia * Tor (research station), a Norwegian research station in Antarctica * Tor, a subdivision of the Orya–Tor languages of Western New Guinea, Indonesia * TOR, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier of

Torrington Municipal Airport Torrington Municipal Airport is two miles east of Torrington, in Goshen County, Wyoming. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''general aviation'' facility. Facilities The airport covers 256 ...

, Wyoming, US * Transport of Rockland, a bus system in Rockland County, New York, US * Terms of reference, define the purpose and structure of a collection of people with a common goal * T.O.R., nominal letters added after their name by a member of the

Third Order Regular of Saint Francis of Penance The Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance or simply the Third Order Regular of St. Francis ( la, Tertius Ordo Regularis Sancti Francisci) is a mendicant order rooted in the Third Order of St. Francis which was founded in 1221. The mem ...

, a mendicant religious order * Tornado warning, a weather alert whose SAME code is TOR * Transcript of Records, an inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student