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Torque wrench
A torque wrench, also called a torque spanner, is a hand tool that tightens threaded fasteners to a controlled torque, with click and digital types.
Torque-angle tightening
Torque-angle tightening is a fastener-tightening method in which a snug torque seats the joint and a further measured angle of turn sets the preload, largely independent of friction.
TorqueFlite
TorqueFlite is the trade name for Chrysler Corporation's line of automatic transmissions, introduced in 1956 in the Chrysler 300B and still used in Stellantis vehicles today.
Torquest Partners
TorQuest Partners is a Toronto-based Canadian private equity firm founded by Brent Belzberg in 2002, investing in middle-market companies across Canada and the United States.
Torr
The torr, or conventional millimeter of mercury, is a non-SI unit of pressure equal to about 133.322 pascals, named for the Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli and still the dominant unit in vacuum science.
Torraccia dell’Inviolata
Torraccia dell’Inviolata: Roman mausoleum with a cruciform chamber inside a circular ring, late 1st–2nd century AD, near Guidonia Montecelio, Rome; converted to a medieval tower, now in the Inviolata regional park.
Torraccio a Poggio Moiano
I Torracci (Torraccio a Poggio Moiano): three Roman tower tombs of the 2nd century AD by the ancient Via Salaria at Osteria Nuova, Lazio; tallest preserved to 14.60 m, one stands in a modern garden.
Torrance Coombs
Torrance Coombs, Canadian-American actor born 1983 in Vancouver, known as Bash on Reign (2013–2016) and Thomas Culpepper on The Tudors; UBC BFA acting graduate.
Torrance High School
Torrance High School, also called Torrance School until 1923, is a historic public high school in Torrance, California, opened 1917, listed on the National Register, and used as the Beverly Hills, 90210 exterior.
Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) are standardized tests measuring creative thinking potential in children and adults, first published in 1966 and used in gifted identification.
Torrance Watkins Fleischmann
Torrance Watkins Fleischmann (born 1949), American eventing rider; 1984 Los Angeles Olympic team gold on Finvarra, individual bronze at the 1980 Fontainebleau Alternate Olympics on Poltroon, first woman inducted into the US Eventing Hall of Fame.
Torrance, California
Torrance, California: a city in southwest Los Angeles County founded in 1912 by developer Jared Sidney Torrance and the Dominguez Land Company, planned by Olmsted Brothers with architect Irving Gill, incorporated May 1921; 2020 population 147,067.
Torre Aguila
Torre Águila (Torreáguila) is a Roman villa near Barbaño, Montijo, Badajoz, Spain, discovered in 1984. Occupied from the 1st to 8th century AD, it produced olive oil and wine and later hosted Christian buildings and a necropolis.
Torre Astura
Torre Astura is a medieval fortified castle on an islet at the mouth of the Astura river near Nettuno, Lazio, built from 1193 by the Frangipane on a Roman villa and fishpond, site of Conradin's 1268 betrayal, now inside a military range open only in summer.
Torre Caldara
Torre Caldara (Tor Caldara, Torre delle Caldane): 16th-century coastal watchtower at Anzio, Lazio, Italy, inside the 1988 regional nature reserve with the coast's only solfatara, sulfur springs, and a Roman maritime villa of the 1st-3rd centuries AD.
Torre de Cerredo
Torre de Cerredo (Torrecerréu), about 2,650 m, is the highest peak of the Picos de Europa, the Cordillera Cantábrica, Asturias and León, first climbed 30 July 1892 by Saint-Saud and Labrouche; its normal route is PD- scrambling from the Jou de Cerredo.
Torre de Cristal
Torre de Cristal, Spanish for Glass Tower, is a 249-meter office skyscraper in Madrid designed by César Pelli, the tallest building in Spain, in the Cuatro Torres Business Area.
Torre de los Escipiones
Torre de los Escipiones (Torre dels Escipions), a Roman tower-shaped funerary mausoleum of the early 1st century AD on the Via Augusta 6 km from Tarragona, with Attis reliefs long misidentified as the Scipio brothers; part of UNESCO's Tarraco ensemble.
Torre de Palma
Torre de Palma (Villa lusitano-romana de Torre de Palma) is a large Roman villa near Monforte, Alentejo, Portugal, founded in the 1st century CE, famed for its Muses and Horses mosaics and Paleochristian basilica, a National Monument since 1970.
Torre de San Josep
Torre de San Josep (Torre de Sant Josep, formerly Torre de San José or Torre de Hércules) is a Roman funerary tower at Villajoyosa, Alicante, built 150–170 AD, the largest Roman funerary tower preserved in Spain, honoring Lucius Terentius Mancinus.
Torre de Urkulu
Torre de Urkulu (Urkulu Dorrea) is a circular Roman trophy tower on mount Urkulu (1,420 m) in Orbaizeta, Navarra, near the French border; identified by Tobie in 1976, its origin is debated between Pompey and Augustus.
Torre del Breny
Torre del Breny (Torre dels Dimonis), a 3rd-century Roman tower mausoleum at Castellgalí, Bages, Catalonia, near the Llobregat-Cardener confluence; only its 10 x 10.5 m base survives after 1870 dismantling; declared BCIN in 2022 with the Boades villa ensemble.
Torre del Filosofo
Torre del Filosofo, a locality on Etna's upper south flank at about 2,920 m, named for the legend that Empedocles sheltered there; its 1960 refuge was buried by the 2001, 2002-03, and 2013 eruptions.
Torre del Papito
Torre del Papito is a medieval tower in Rome at the edge of the Largo di Torre Argentina archaeological area, one of the city's few surviving medieval towers.
Torre di Donoratico
Torre di Donoratico: ruined 12th-century tower of the Della Gherardesca castle near Castagneto Carducci, Livorno, Tuscany, on an Etruscan-fortified hill; destroyed around 1447 by Alfonso of Aragon, excavated 2000-2010.
Torre di Mercurio
Torre di Mercurio (Tower of Mercury), Tower XI of Pompeii's city walls at the end of Via di Mercurio in Regio VI. A 13-meter opus incertum tower of the early 1st century BC, restored and reopened 23 December 2022.
Torre di Palidoro
Torre di Palidoro (Torre Perla), a coastal watchtower in Fiumicino near Rome on the via Aurelia, built on Roman villa ruins, restored 1562-1563, and the site of Salvo D'Acquisto's 1943 execution; reopened as a Carabinieri museum in 2020.
Torre Glòries
Torre Glòries, formerly the Torre Agbar, is a 144.4 m office skyscraper in Barcelona designed by Jean Nouvel, built for the city's water company and completed in 2004.
Torre Picasso
Torre Picasso (Picasso Tower) is a 157-meter, 43-floor office skyscraper in the AZCA business district of Madrid, Spain, designed by World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki and completed in 1988.
Torre PwC
Torre PwC is a 236-meter skyscraper in Madrid, formerly the Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso, the third tallest in Madrid and one of four towers in the Cuatro Torres Business Area.