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Vinony

torrent

noun

  1. rapid flow of water
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɒɹənt/ / /ˈtoɹənt/ / /ˈtɑɹənt/

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from French torrent, from Italian torrente, from Latin torrentem, accusative of torrēns (“burning, seething, roaring”), from Latin torrēre (“to parch, scorch”).

  1. Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

    “Waves of torrent fire.”

noun

Etymology: From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent); ultimately from etymology 1, carrying the notion of the flow of information.

  1. A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.

    “I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.”

verb

Etymology: From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent); ultimately from etymology 1, carrying the notion of the flow of information.

  1. To download in a torrent.

    “The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.”

    “They had two thousand CDs burned with Listnin loaded on them, including versions for every major phone OS, and they'd set up a dozen servers in seven different countries for people to torrent the file from.”