Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to:

Places

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 locat ...

, a village in Spain * Tor, former name of

Sloviansk Sloviansk ( uk, Слов'янськ, Sloviansk ; russian: Славянск, Slavyansk or ; prior to 1784 – Tor) is a city in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the administrative center of the Slovyansk urban commun ...

, 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

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 The Tor Project, Inc. is a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization founded by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others. The Tor Project is primarily responsible for maintaining software for ...

, 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 The Knights of the Round Table ( cy, Marchogion y Ford Gron, kw, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, br, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the knights of the fellowship of King Arthur in the literary cycle of the Matter of Britain. First appearing in li ...

, 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 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, and is the largest publisher of Chinese sci ...

, 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-bas ...

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

, 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 T ...

, a heritage listed villa at Queensland, Australia *

Tor (research station) Tor research station is a Norwegian Antarctic research station in Queen Maud Land. Overview Tor was established in 1992, for the purpose of ornithological studies.Tor Field Station. Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI). Retrieved on 2022-08-18 from ...

, 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. ...

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 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 q ...

, 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 tornado warning (SAME code: TOR) is a severe weather warning product issued by regional offices of weather forecasting agencies throughout the world to alert the public when a tornado has been reported or indicated by weather radar within the p ...

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