Torch (disambiguation)

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A torch is a portable burning light source.

Torch or torches may also refer to:

Music

• Torch (band), a Norwegian rock metal band
• Torch (American rapper), an American rapper
• Torch (rapper), a German rapper
• "The Torch" (Elgar), a song by the English composer Edward Elgar
• "The Torch", a song by Scottish musician Momus from the album Scobberlotchers
• "Torch" (song), a 1982 song by British pop duo Soft Cell
• Torch (Carly Simon album), a 1981 album by Carly Simon
• Torch (Honeytribe album), a 2006 album by Devon Allman's Honeytribe
• "Torch", the ending song for the anime Clannad
• Warren DeMartini, nicknamed "Torch", guitarist for American hard rock band Ratt
• Sidney Torch, British composer and bandleader
• Torches (album), the debut album by Foster the People
• Torch song, a type of love song

Media

• The Torch (XM), a channel on XM Radio
• The Torch (St. John's University), the student newspaper of St. John's University
• The Torch (film), a 1950 film directed by Emilio Fernández
• Human Torch, the Fantastic Four comic book character
• The Torch (novel), a 1948 science fiction novel by Jack Bechdolt
• Torch, a 2007 novel by American author Cheryl Strayed
• Torch, a human replacement entity utilized in the world of Shakugan no Shana novels
• Torch (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
• "Torches", an episode of the television series Teletubbies

Technology

• BlackBerry Torch, a smartphone
• Torch Computers, former manufacturer of computer peripherals for the BBC Micro
• Torch (browser), a freeware web browser and Internet Suite developed by Torch Media
• Torch (machine learning), a library of machine learning algorithms
• TORCH (search), a Tor hidden search engine

Other uses

• Colloquially, to commit the crime of arson
• Torch, Missouri, a community in the United States
• Torch, Ohio, a community in the United States
• Operation Torch, the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign
• Robert Torricelli, a U.S. Senator from New Jersey nicknamed "the Torch"
• The Marina Torch, a residential skyscraper in Dubai
• TORCH report, a report on the Chernobyl disaster

Medicine

• TORCH complex (aka TORCHES), a mnemonic for maternal infections transmitted to the fetus

See also

• Torched (disambiguation)