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torr

torr is the archaic form of tor.

Meaning of tor

Noun

tor (plural tors)

  1. A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock.
    • Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, […]1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 183
  2. (South-West England) A hill with such rock formation.
    • She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors—and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.2008, Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night, Signet Eclipse, →ISBN, page 242

Noun (1)

torr (plural torrs or torr)

  1. A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals.

Proper noun capitalized: Torr

Torr (plural Torrs)

  1. A surname.

Noun (2) capitalized: Torr

Torr (plural Torrs or Torr)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of torr (“measure of pressure”).

Symbol capitalized: Torr

Torr

  1. The unit symbol for a torr (“unit of pressure”)

Synonyms of torr

Forms of torr

Noun
pluraltorrs
pluraltorr
alternative formTorr
pluralTorrs
pluralTorr
alternative formtorr
Proper noun
pluralTorrs

Origin of torr

From Middle English torr, from Old English torr.

Clipping of Torricelli; named after Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), who discovered the principle of the barometer.

Clipping of Torricelli. Named after Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli.

Words formed from torr

Questions about torr

What does torr mean?
Torr means a unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals.
What is torr the archaic form of?
Torr is the archaic form of tor.
What part of speech is torr?
Torr can be a noun, a proper noun or a symbol.
What is the plural of torr?
The plural of torr is torrs.

Words near torr in the dictionary

  1. torquing off
  2. torquing up
  3. torquoselective
  4. torquoselectivities
  5. torquoselectivity
  6. torr
  7. torradovirus
  8. torradoviruses
  9. Torralba
  10. Torralbas
  11. Torrance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: torr (page history and authors); Torr (page history and authors); tor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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