Torrent or torrents may refer to: * A fast flowing stream

Animals

Torrent duck The torrent duck (''Merganetta armata'') is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is the only member of the genus ''Merganetta''. It is placed in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae after the " perching duck" assemblage to which ...

, a species of the family Anatidae * Torrent fish *

Torrent frog Torrent frogs are a number of unrelated frogs that prefer to inhabit small rapid-flowing mountain or hill streams with a lot of torrents. They are generally smallish neobatrachians with a greyish-brown and usually darkly mottled back, giving them ...

, various unrelated frogs *

Torrent robin The torrent flyrobin (''Monachella muelleriana'') is a species of passerine bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. It is also known as the torrent robin. It is placed in the monotypic genus ''Monachella''. The species occurs in N ...

, a bird species *

Torrent salamander The torrent salamanders or Cascade salamanders are a family of salamanders (Rhyacotritonidae) with only one genus, ''Rhyacotriton''. The torrent salamanders are endemic to the United States in the Pacific Northwest (including northwestern Calif ...

, a family of salamanders

Arts and entertainment

* ''Torrent'' (1926 film), starring Greta Garbo * ''The Torrent'' (1924 film), film directed by William Doner and A. P. Younger * '' The Torrent (Le Torrent)'', 2012 Canadian film directed by Simon Lavoie * '' The Torrents'', a 1955 Australian play * ''Torrent'' (play) (, ''Kuángliú''), a Chinese play about the life of

Tian Han Tian Han ( zh, 田汉; 12 March 1898 – 10 December 1968), formerly romanized as T'ien Han, was a Chinese drama activist, playwright, a leader of revolutionary music and films, as well as a translator and poet. He emerged at the time of the ...

* ''Torrent'' (TV series), a technology show

Computing

* BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol *

Torrent file In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are compute ...

, stores metadata used for BitTorrent

Corporations

* Torrent Group, an Indian business house, and its subsidiary companies: ** Torrent Cables **

Torrent Pharmaceuticals Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company, owned by Torrent Group and headquartered in Ahmedabad. It was promoted by U. N. Mehta, initially as Trinity Laboratories Ltd, and was later renamed Torrent Pharm ...

** Torrent Power

People

Ana Torrent Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis (born 12 July 1966) is a Spanish film actress. Early life and career Her debut came in 1973 with the starring role as "Ana" in the film '' El espíritu de la colmena'' (''The Spirit of the Beehive''), directed by ...

(born 1966), Spanish actress * Domènec Torrent (born 1962), Spanish professional football manager * Marion Torrent (born 1992), French footballer * Ramon Torrents (born 1937), Spanish comic book artist * Stanislas Torrents (1839–1916), French painter

Places

Torrent, Valencia Torrent ( es, Torrente) is a city located within the metropolitan area of the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the largest municipality of the Horta Oest ''comarca'', with 83,962 inhabitants (2020). It is situated some 7 km from Valencia city ...

, a city in Spain *

Torrent, Girona Torrent is a village and municipality in the ''comarca'' of Baix Emporda, province of Girona and autonomous community of Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of ...

, a Spanish village *

Torrent Bay Torrent Bay / Rākauroa is a bay in Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand. History Torrent Bay was named by French explorer Dumont D'Urville during his exploration and mapping of this area of New Zealand in 1827. The area was surveyed as a vil ...

, New Zealand * Torrent Falls, an outdoor area in Kentucky, United States *

Torrent River The Torrent River is a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows east to reach Torrent Bay on the Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere coast of the Abel Tasman National Park. The Abel Tasman Track The Abel Tasman Coast Trac ...

, which feeds into the bay * River Torrent, Northern Ireland *

Torrenthorn The Torrenthorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Leukerbad in the canton of Valais Valais ( , , ; frp, Valês; german: Wallis ), more formally the Canton of Valais,; german: Kanton Wallis; in other official Swiss languages out ...

, a mountain of the Bernese Alps, Valais, Switzerland ** Torrent, Switzerland, a ski area on Torrenthorn, near Leukerbad

Vehicles

Pontiac Torrent The Pontiac Torrent is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by General Motors for the 2006 to 2009 model years. A replacement for the Aztek, it was a mildly restyled version of the first-generation Chevrolet Equinox. The Torrent shared its basic b ...

, a crossover SUV automobile by GM's Pontiac from 2005 to 2009 * ''Torrent'' (ship), an American sailing ship wrecked in 1868

Other uses

* FC Milwaukee Torrent, a semi-professional soccer team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Les Torrents, the sports teams of the

Université du Québec en Outaouais The Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) is a constituent university of the Université du Québec system located in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. As of September 2010, combined enrolment at UQO's Gatineau and Saint-Jérôme campuses was 6,017, ...

, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada