Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to:

Places

Toronto, Canada Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

Toronto Raptors The Toronto Raptors are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Toronto. The Raptors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NBA), Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference (NBA), E ...

Tor, Pallars Tor is a village within the Alins municipality of the Pallars Sobirà in Catalonia, Spain. Its municipal boundary borders with Andorra close to the spot in La Massana parish where the Vallnord ski resort complex, formed by Pal and Arinsal, is l ...

, a village in Spain * Tor, former name of

Sloviansk Sloviansk is a city in Donetsk Oblast, northern part of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The city was known as ''Tor'' until 1784. While it did not actually belong to the raion itself, Sloviansk served as the administrative center of the S ...

, Ukraine, a city * Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano *

Tor Bay Tor Bay (sometimes written as Torbay) is a bay on the south-east coast of the county of Devon, England. Facing east into the English Channel, it is about wide from north to south. The settlements of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham, which lie alo ...

, Devon, England * Tor River, Western New Guinea, Indonesia *

El Tor, Egypt El Tor ( ''/'' ), also romanized as ''Al-Tur'' and ''At-Tur'' and known as ''Tur Sinai'', formerly Raithu, is a small city and the capital of the South Sinai Governorate of Egypt. The name of the city comes from the Arabic term for the mountain ...

, a small city on the Sinai coast

Science and technology

* ''Tor'' (fish), a genus of fish commonly known as mahseers * Target of rapamycin, a regulatory enzyme *

Tor functor In mathematics, the Tor functors are the derived functors of the tensor product of modules over a ring. Along with the Ext functor, Tor is one of the central concepts of homological algebra, in which ideas from algebraic topology are used to const ...

, in mathematics *

Tor (network) Tor is a free overlay network for enabling anonymous communication. It is built on free and open-source software run by over seven thousand volunteer-operated relays worldwide, as well as by millions of users who route their Internet traf ...

, an Internet communication method for enabling online anonymity **

The Tor Project The Tor Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization based in Winchester, Massachusetts. It is founded by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and five others. The Tor Project is primarily responsibl ...

, a software organization that maintains the Tor network and the related Tor Browser * Telex-on-radio, a wireless

Teleprinter A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point (telecommunications), point-to-point and point- ...

transmission medium

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), Norweg ...

, a Nordic masculine given name *

Tor (surname) Tor is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * George Tor (born 1989), Nigerian association football player * Guilhem de la Tor (fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denote ...

Tor Johnson Karl Erik Tore Johansson (19 October 1903 – 12 May 1971), better known by the stage name Tor Johnson, was a Swedish professional wrestler and actor. As an actor, Johnson appeared in many B-movies, including some famously directed by Ed Wood. ...

, 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 The Juno Awards (stylized as JUNOS), or simply known as the Junos, are awards presented by Canadian Academ ...

, Canadian electronic musician Tor Sjogren

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Tor (comics) ''Tor'' is an American comic book series, created by Joe Kubert and Norman Maurer in the story ''1,000,000 Years Ago!'' (Sept. 1953), published by St. John Publications. The series' protagonist, Tor, is a prehistoric cave man who has fantasy ad ...

, a prehistoric human character * Tor, a space pilot in the Millarworld comic book series ''

Empress The word ''emperor'' (from , via ) can mean the male ruler of an empire. ''Empress'', the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother (empress dowager/grand empress dowager), or a woman who rules ...

'' * Tor, a character in Robin McKinley's book '' The Hero and the Crown'' * Tor, a character in the animated television series ''

Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor ''Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor'' is an American Saturday-morning animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that ran on CBS from September 9, 1967 to January 6, 1968, airing in reruns until September 6, 1969. Despite Moby' ...

'' *

Sir Tor The Knights of the Round Table (, , ) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century. The Knights are a chivalric order dedicated to ensuring the peace ...

, one of the Knights of the Round Table

In print

* ''Tor'', 1944 Dutch novel by

Gerard Walschap Jacob Lodewijk Gerard, Baron Walschap (9 July 1898 – 25 October 1989), was a Belgium, Belgian writer. Early life Walschap was born in Londerzeel-St. Jozef in 1898. He went to ''highschool'' at the ''Klein seminarie'' in Hoogstraten, and later ...

* ''

Tor.com ''Reactor'', formerly ''Tor.com'', is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. The magazine publishes articles, reviews, original short fiction, re-reads and commentary on specul ...

'', former name of ''Reactor'' 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 initi ...

("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 Tor Air AB, operated as Tor Air, was a charter airline based in Gothenburg, Sweden, that operated between December 2008 and December 2011. Its main base was Gothenburg City Airport. This airline should not be mixed up with another Swedish ...

, a former Swedish charter airline *

Tor Books Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles. History Tor was founded by Tom Doherty, ...

, a publishing company *

Tor Line The Tor Line was a freight shipping company. Together with its subsidiaries, the Tor Line operated a fleet of approximately 65 ro-ro, ro-pax and lo-lo ships, primarily on the North and Baltic Seas. It was ultimately purchased by Denmark- ...

, a former Swedish shipping company

Military

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

Panavia Tornado The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multi-role combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany. There are three primary #Variants, Tornado variants: the Tornado IDS ...

, combat aircraft (ICAO aircraft type designator TOR) *

Tor (rifle) The WKW Tor (Thorium) or previously WKW Wilk (Wolf) is a modern anti-materiel and/or sniper rifle produced in Poland by the Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów. The abbreviation "WKW" stands for ''Wielkokalibrowy Karabin Wyborowy'' or Large Caliber Sni ...

, a Polish sniper rifle *

Tor missile system The Tor (; ) 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 external ballistics, ballistic threats ( ...

, a Russian anti-aircraft weapon

Other uses

Tor (rock formation) A tor, which is also known by geomorphologists as either a castle koppie or kopje, is a large, free-standing rock (geology), rock outcrop that rises abruptly from the surrounding smooth and gentle slopes of a rounded hill summit or ridge crest. ...

, a rock outcrop or hill *

Tor, Toowoomba Tor is a heritage-listed villa at 396 Tor Street, Newtown, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by William Hodgen and built in 1904. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 May 1999. History ...

, a heritage listed villa at Queensland, Australia *

Tor (research station) Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to: Places * Toronto, Canada ** Toronto Raptors * 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 * To ...

, a Norwegian research station in Antarctica * Tor, a subdivision of the

Orya–Tor languages The Orya–Tor languages are a family of just over a dozen Papuan languages spoken in Western New Guinea, Indonesia. Classification The Tor family, named after the Tor River, is clearly established. Its closest relative appears to be Orya. S ...

of Western New Guinea, Indonesia * Toorak railway station, Melbourne * TOR, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier of Torrington Municipal Airport, Wyoming, US * Transport of Rockland, a bus system in Rockland County, New York, US *

Terms of reference Terms of reference (TOR) define the purpose and structures of a project, committee, meeting, negotiation, or any similar collection of people who have agreed to work together to accomplish a shared goal. Terms of reference show how the object in ...

, 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, a mendicant religious order *

Tornado warning A tornado warning ( SAME code: TOR) is a public warning that is issued by weather forecasting agencies to an area in the direct path of a tornado, or a severe thunderstorm capable of producing one, and advises individuals in that area to take c ...

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

Tor oil field The Tor oil field is a crude oil and associated gas producing field in the Norwegian sector of the central North Sea. Production of oil and gas started in 1978 and peak oil Peak oil is the point when global oil production reaches its maximum ...

, an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea