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1. A heavy rain
   - downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, pelter, soaker, gullywasher [US]
    
2. A violently fast stream of water (or other liquid)
   "the houses were swept away in the torrent"
   - violent stream
    
3. An overwhelming number or amount
   "a torrent of abuse"
   - flood, inundation, deluge
    
4. (computing) a file or set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network

Derived forms: torrents

See also: torrential

Type of: batch, current, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, rain, rainfall, sight, slew, spate, stack, stream, tidy sum, wad

Encyclopedia: Torrent Torrent, Valencia