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tor

 (tôr)
n.
1. A high rock or pile of rocks on the top of a hill.
2. A rocky peak or hill.

[Middle English, from Old English torr, probably of Celtic origin.]
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tor

(tɔː)
n
1. (Physical Geography) a high hill, esp a bare rocky one
2. (Physical Geography) chiefly Southwest English a prominent rock or heap of rocks, esp on a hill
[Old English torr, probably of Celtic origin; compare Scottish Gaelic torr pile, Welsh twr]
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tor

(tɔr)

n.
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a rocky mountain or hill.
[before 900; Old English torr < Celtic; compare Irish tor, Welsh twr heap, pile]

-tor

a suffix found in loanwords from Latin, forming personal agent nouns from verbs and, less commonly, from nouns: janitor; orator; victor.
[< Latin -tor (s. -tōr-), c. Greek -tōr (s. -tor-), Skt -tar-]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.tor - a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hilltor - a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill
rock, stone - a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
2.tor - a high rocky hilltor - a high rocky hill      
hill - a local and well-defined elevation of the land; "they loved to roam the hills of West Virginia"
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Translations

tor

[tɔːʳ] Ncolina f abrupta y rocosa, pico m pequeño (esp en el suroeste de Inglaterra)
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tor

n (esp in names) → Berg m
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Seconds later, the device began connecting to an external server on the Tor network - executing the attack just after the company's security team had left the office for the weekend.
Many anxious social media users switched to virtual private networks (VPNs) or the TOR network to bypass the order and keep communication open with friends and relatives as the extent of the carnage became clear.
The website can be found on the Tor network, which hosts so-called "onion" sites.
Lastly, I installed Wire, for messaging, DuckDuckGo as my default search engine and browser, and Orbot, a TOR application to route all my network traffic through the TOR network for added anonymity.
- Trigger an alert via a rule in Exabeam Data Lake if an indicator of compromise is detected, such as a known endpoint from a TOR network
"Use of counter-censorship technologies, such as using proxy services, VPNs and the Tor network in Turkey has historically climbed after every such milestone decision that restricted the country's online freedoms more.
In the words of Roger Dingledine, chief architect of the Tor network: 'The United States government can't simply run an anonymity system for everybody and then use it themselves only.
"The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers [that] employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than making a direct connection," the Tor website explains.
Of the works in the show that walk the line between dialoguing with "pre-internet art" (to deploy Oliver Laric's cheeky inversion of "post-internet art") and critically engaging with the internet, the slickest of is Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube, 2014, a Plexiglas-encased router that allows museum visitors (and remote users) to connect to the Tor network for anonymous surfing.
The possibility of creating an anonymous and abuse-free underground forum, market or malware command and communicate server is attracting more and more criminals to the TOR network,' Kaspersky said.