Torrent or torrents may refer to: * A fast flowing

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...

Animals

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

, a species of the family Anatidae *

Torrent fish The torrentfish (''Cheimarrichthys fosteri''), or panoko (Māori), is an amphidromous freshwater fish that is endemic to New Zealand. Torrentfish are well adapted to life in shallow, fast-flowing riffles and rapids. They grow to a maximum of i ...

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 e ...

, 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 New G ...

, a bird species * Torrent salamander, 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 Torrent or torrents may refer to: * A fast flowing stream Animals * Torrent duck, a species of the family Anatidae * Torrent fish * Torrent frog, various unrelated frogs * Torrent robin, a bird species * Torrent salamander, a family of sala ...

(Le Torrent)'', 2012 Canadian film directed by Simon Lavoie * ''

The Torrents ''The Torrents'' is a 1955 Australian play by Oriel Gray, set in the late 19th century, about the arrival of a female journalist in an all-male newspaper office, and an attempt to develop irrigation-based agriculture in a former gold mining town. ...

'', 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 computer ...

, stores metadata used for BitTorrent

Corporations

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

People

* Ana Torrent (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, a city in Spain * Torrent, Girona, a Spanish village * Torrent Bay, New Zealand * Torrent Falls, an outdoor area in Kentucky, United States * Torrent River, which feeds into the bay * River Torrent, Northern Ireland * Torrenthorn, a mountain of the Bernese Alps, Valais, Switzerland ** Torrent, Switzerland, a ski area on Torrenthorn, near Leukerbad

Vehicles

* Pontiac Torrent, a crossover SUV automobile by GM's Pontiac from 2005 to 2009 * Torrent (ship), ''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, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada