Torch (disambiguation)

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A torch is a portable burning light source.

Torch or torches may also refer to:

Places

• Torch, Missouri, a community in the United States
• Torch, Ohio, a community in the United States
• The Marina Torch, a residential skyscraper in Dubai

People

• Torch (American rapper), an American rapper
• Torch (German rapper), a German rapper
• Warren DeMartini, nicknamed "Torch", a guitarist for the American hard rock band Ratt
• Sidney Torch, a British composer and bandleader
• Robert Torricelli, a U.S. Senator from New Jersey nicknamed "the Torch"

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Torch (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Torch, a human replacement entity utilized in the world of Shakugan no Shana novels
• Human Torch, the Fantastic Four comic book character

Music

Songs

• Torch (Carly Simon album), a 1981 album by Carly Simon
• Torch (Honeytribe album), a 2006 album by Devon Allman's Honeytribe
• "Torch" (song), a 1982 song by British pop duo Soft Cell
• "Torch", the ending song for the anime
  Clannad
• "Torch", a 2007 song by American rock duo Pinback from their album Autumn of the Seraphs
• "Torches", a 2017 song by X Ambassadors
• "The Torch" (Elgar), a song by the English composer Edward Elgar
• "The Torch", a song by Scottish musician Momus from the album Scobberlotchers

Other uses in music

• Torch (band), a Norwegian rock metal band
• "Torch song", a type of love song
• Torches (album), the debut album by Foster the People

Print media

• Torch (novel), a 2007 novel by American author Cheryl Strayed
• The Torch (novel), a 1948 science fiction novel by Jack Bechdolt
• The Torch (St. John's University), student newspaper
• TORCH report, a written report on the Chernobyl disaster

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Torch (juggling), a prop used by jugglers
• The Torch (film), a 1950 film directed by Emilio Fernández
• "Torches", an episode of the television series Teletubbies

Computing and technology

• Torch (browser)
  , a freeware Web browser and Internet suite developed by Torch Media
• Torch (company), manufacturer of fire detection sensors
• Torch (machine learning), a library of machine learning algorithms
• BlackBerry Torch, a smartphone
• Torch Computers, former manufacturer of computers
• Torch (chess engine)
  , a computer chess engine

Tools

• Torch, or flashlight, a portable hand-held electric light
• Blowtorch, fuel-burning metalworking tool used for applying flame and heat
• Magnesium torch, used as an underwater light source
• Oxyacetylene torch, see Oxy-fuel welding and cutting

Other uses

• Operation Torch, the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign
• TORCH,
  The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
• TORCH complex
  (aka TORCHES), a healthcare mnemonic for maternal infections transmitted to the fetus
• TORCH syndrome, a cluster of symptoms caused by congenital infection
• Torch Commando, South African organisation, founded in 1941 during the Second World War

See also

• Torched (disambiguation)

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