# Tor

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**Tor**, **TOR** or **ToR** may refer to:

## Places

- [Toronto, Canada](/source/Toronto,_Canada) - [Toronto Raptors](/source/Toronto_Raptors)
- [Tor, Pallars](/source/Tor,_Pallars), a village in Spain
- Tor, former name of [Sloviansk](/source/Sloviansk), Ukraine, a city
- [Mount Tor](/source/Mount_Tor), Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano
- [Tor Bay](/source/Tor_Bay), Devon, England
- [Tor River](/source/Tor_River), Western New Guinea, Indonesia
- [El Tor, Egypt](/source/El_Tor,_Egypt), a small city on the Sinai coast

## Science and technology

- [*Tor* (fish)](/source/Tor_(fish)), a genus of fish commonly known as mahseers
- [Target of rapamycin](/source/Target_of_rapamycin), a regulatory enzyme
- [Tor functor](/source/Tor_functor), in mathematics
- [Tor (network)](/source/Tor_(network)), an Internet communication method for enabling online anonymity - [The Tor Project](/source/The_Tor_Project), a software organization that maintains the Tor network and the related Tor Browser
- Telex-on-radio, a wireless [Teleprinter](/source/Teleprinter) transmission medium
- [Top-of-rack switch](/source/Top-of-rack_switch) (ToR), a device used in data center networks

## People

- [Tor (given name)](/source/Tor_(given_name)), a Nordic masculine given name
- [Tor (surname)](/source/Tor_(surname))
- [Tor Johnson](/source/Tor_Johnson), stage name of Swedish professional wrestler and actor Karl Erik Tore Johansson (1902 or 1903–1971)
- [Tor (musician)](/source/Tor_(musician)), Canadian electronic musician Tor Sjogren

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Fictional characters

- [Tor (comics)](/source/Tor_(comics)), a prehistoric human character
- Tor, a space pilot in the Millarworld comic book series *[Empress](/source/Empress_(comic_book))*
- Tor, a character in Robin McKinley's book *[The Hero and the Crown](/source/The_Hero_and_the_Crown)*
- Tor, a character in the animated television series *[Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor](/source/Moby_Dick_and_Mighty_Mightor)*
- [Sir Tor](/source/Sir_Tor), one of the Knights of the Round Table

### In print

- *Tor*, 1944 Dutch novel by [Gerard Walschap](/source/Gerard_Walschap)
- *[Tor.com](/source/Tor.com)*, former name of *Reactor* science fiction and fantasy magazine

### Other arts, entertainment, and media

- [The One Ring Roleplaying Game](/source/The_One_Ring_Roleplaying_Game) ("TOR"), a tabletop role-playing game set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
- [TheOneRing.net](/source/TheOneRing.net), a fandom website for Middle-earth-related topics

## Companies

- [Tor Air](/source/Tor_Air), a former Swedish charter airline
- [Tor Books](/source/Tor_Books), a publishing company
- [Tor Line](/source/Tor_Line), a former Swedish shipping company

## Military

- [HNoMS *Tor*](/source/HNoMS_Tor), several Norwegian Navy craft
- [Panavia Tornado](/source/Panavia_Tornado), combat aircraft (ICAO aircraft type designator TOR)
- [Tor (rifle)](/source/Tor_(rifle)), a Polish sniper rifle
- [Tor missile system](/source/Tor_missile_system), a Russian anti-aircraft weapon

## Other uses

- [Tor (rock formation)](/source/Tor_(rock_formation)), a rock outcrop or hill
- [Tor, Toowoomba](/source/Tor,_Toowoomba), a heritage listed villa at Queensland, Australia
- [Tor (research station)](/source/Tor_(research_station)), a Norwegian research station in Antarctica
- Tor, a subdivision of the [Orya–Tor languages](/source/Orya%E2%80%93Tor_languages) of Western New Guinea, Indonesia
- [Toorak railway station](/source/Toorak_railway_station), Melbourne
- TOR, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier of [Torrington Municipal Airport](/source/Torrington_Municipal_Airport), Wyoming, US
- [Transport of Rockland](/source/Transport_of_Rockland), a bus system in Rockland County, New York, US
- [Terms of reference](/source/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](/source/Third_Order_Regular_of_Saint_Francis_of_Penance), a mendicant religious order
- [Tornado warning](/source/Tornado_warning), a weather alert whose SAME code is TOR
- [Transcript of Records](/source/Transcript_of_Records), an inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student
- [Tor oil field](/source/Tor_oil_field), an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea

## See also

- [Tor Castle](/source/Tor_Castle), Highland, Scotland
- [Tor Formation](/source/Tor_Formation), a geological formation of the North Sea
- [Tor Limestone](/source/Tor_Limestone), a geologic formation in Nevada
- [El Tor](/source/El_Tor), a strain of bacteria
- [El Tor, Egypt](/source/El_Tor,_Egypt), a city - [El Tor Airport](/source/El_Tor_Airport)
- [Glastonbury Tor](/source/Glastonbury_Tor)
- [Tor-tor dance](/source/Tor-tor_dance), a traditional Indonesian dance
- [Thor (disambiguation)](/source/Thor_(disambiguation))
- [Torr (disambiguation)](/source/Torr_(disambiguation))
- [Torre (disambiguation)](/source/Torre_(disambiguation))
- [Tors (disambiguation)](/source/Tors_(disambiguation))

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