Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to:

Places

* Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain * Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city *

Mount Tor Mount Tor is an extinct volcano located on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia, with an elevation of above sea level. Geology Mount Tor was a shield volcano of the Mount Read Volcanics The Mount Read Volcanics is a Cambrian volcanic b ...

, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano * Tor Bay, Devon, England *

Tor River The Tor River (Bahasa Indonesia: ''Sungai Tor'') is a river in Western New Guinea with a total length of .

Sungai Tor The Tor River ( Bahasa Indonesia: ''Sungai Tor'') is a river in Western New Guinea with a total length of . Sungai Torin Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2013-05-07; database downloaded 2015-11-27 See also *List of rivers of Western New Guinea ...

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, 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, 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 constr ...

, 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), 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. 1216–1233), French jongleur-troubadour *Margaret Tor-Thompson ( 1962–2007), Liberian politician ...

* 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) Tor is an American comics 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 adventures ...

, 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", th ...

'' * 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's n ...

'' * Sir Tor, one of the Knights of the Round Table

In print

* ''Tor'', 1944 Dutch novel by

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

* '' 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 initially ...

("TOR"), a tabletop role-playing game set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth *

TheOneRing.net Tolkien fandom is an international, informal community of fans of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially of the Middle-earth legendarium which includes ''The Hobbit'', ''The Lord of the Rings'', and ''The Silmarillion''. The concept of Tolkien ...

, a fandom website for Middle-earth-related topics

Companies

* Tor Air, 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 scien ...

, a publishing company * Tor Line, a former Swedish shipping company

Military

* HNoMS ''Tor'', several Norwegian Navy craft * Tor (rifle), a Polish sniper rifle * Tor missile system, 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 The Transport of Rockland (TOR) is the bus system for Rockland County, New York, providing service along major routes in Rockland County, as well as connections to Clarkstown Mini-Trans in Clarkstown, Spring Valley Jitney in Spring Valley, the ...

, 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 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 me ...

, a mendicant religious order * Tornado warning, a weather alert whose SAME code is TOR *

Transcript of Records In education, a transcript is a certified record (inventory) of a student throughout a course of study having full enrollment history including all courses (or subjects) attempted, grades earned and degrees and awards conferred. In the United St ...

, an inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student