torrents
Rushing water masses
Torrents are rushing streams of water, especially violent ones caused by heavy rain: Torrents poured down the mountainside.
The word extends to any overwhelming flow: a torrent of abuse, a torrent of words.
In computing, torrents are files shared through BitTorrent protocol, which distributes data across many users: I downloaded the album from torrents.
Severe overflow of water
- cascadeSuccessive downward flow
- spateSudden large number
- gushFlow out forcefully
- surgeSudden powerful increase
outburst · eruption · flood · rush · barrage · stream · volley · avalanche
Intense precipitation event
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- cloudburstSudden heavy localized rainfall
- rainstormHeavy precipitation event
- monsoonSeasonal tropical wind pattern
thunderstorm · precipitation · squall · tempest · driving rain · sheets of rain · bucketing · pelting
Severe overflow of water
- inundationOverwhelming surge of water
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- flashfloodSudden, violent water overflow
swamping · engulfment · monsoon · cloudburst · submersion · floodwaters · floodplain · levee
deluge
Severe overflow of water
surge · outburst · eruption · flood · rush · barrage · stream · volley · avalanche · onslaught
downpour
Intense precipitation event
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- cloudburstSudden heavy localized rainfall
- rainstormHeavy precipitation event
monsoon · thunderstorm · precipitation · squall · tempest · driving rain · sheets of rain · bucketing · pelting · storm
deluge
Severe overflow of water
- inundationOverwhelming surge of water
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- surgeSudden powerful increase
flashflood · swamping · engulfment · monsoon · cloudburst · submersion · floodwaters · floodplain · levee · dike
BitTorrent
Decentralized file-sharing system
- seedingPlanting or ranking
- leechingExtracting gradually, parasitically
- magnetObject producing attractive field
tracker · peer-to-peer · P2P · piracy · The Pirate Bay · swarm · ratio · indexer · client · downloading
- downloadsfiles, app, apps, game, music
- online sharingsharing, content sharing, file sharing, photo sharing, video sharing
- rainy seasonrain, monsoon, rainfall, wet season, rainy season
- file sharingfile sharing, file transfer, P2P, peer to peer, peer-to-peer
- piracysoftware piracy, pirates, book piracy, buccaneers, looting
- Decentralized WebBitTorrent, blockchain, Ethereum, P2P, peer-to-peer
- torrential downpour
- torrential rainExtremely heavy precipitation
- torrent fileP2P distribution metadata
- torrent clientSoftware for peer-to-peer downloads