Turn Explained

To turn is to rotate, either continuously like a wheel turns on its axle, or in a finite motion changing an object's orientation. Turn may also refer to:

Sports and games

• Turn (game), a segment of a game
• Turn (poker), the fourth of five community cards
• Turn (dance and gymnastics), rotation of the body
• Turn (swimming), reversing direction at the end of a pool
• Turn (professional wrestling), a transition between face and heel
• Turn, a quality of spin bowling in cricket

Science and technology

• Turn (knot), a component of a knot
• Turning, shaping wood or metal using a lathe
• Turn (biochemistry), an element of secondary structure in proteins
• Turn (unit), a unit of angle
• Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN), a computer network protocol
• A loop of wire in an electromagnetic coil

Entertainment

Film and television

• Turn (film), a 2001 Japanese film
• The Turn (film), a 2012 short film
• , a 2014 television series on AMC, which takes place during the American Revolutionary War
• "The Turn", an episode of One Day at a Time (2017 TV series)

Literature

• Turn (poetry), or volta, a major shift in a poem's rhetorical and/or dramatic trajectory
• The Turn (novel), a 1902 novel by Luigi Pirandello
• The Turn, an epidemic in Kim Harrison's Hollows series

Music

• Turn (band), an Irish rock group
• Turn (music), a sequence of adjacent notes in the scale
• Turn Records, an independent record label based in Santa Clara, California, US
• Turn, a type of musical ornament

Albums

• Turn (The Ex album), 2004
• Turn (Great Big Sea album), 1999
• Turn (Roscoe Mitchell album) or the title song, 2005
• Turn (Turn album), 2005
• The Turn (Alison Moyet album), 2007
• The Turn (Live album), 2014
• The Turn (Taxi Violence album) or the title song, 2009
• The Turn, by Amber Pacific, 2014
• The Turn, by Fredo Viola, 2008

Songs

• "Turn" (Feeder song), 2001
• "Turn" (Therapy? song), 1993
• "Turn" (Travis song), 1999
• "Turn" (The Wombats song), 2017
• "Turn", by Christie Front Drive from Christie Front Drive, 1994
• "Turn", by Dramatis from For Future Reference, 1981
• "Turn", by Hexedene from Choking on Lilies, 1997
• "Turn", by New Order from Waiting for the Sirens' Call, 2005

Places

• Turn, Kočevje, a former settlement in Slovenia
• Turn Village, in Lancashire, England
• Tirns, (West Frisian: Turns) a village in the Netherlands

Other uses

• Johannes Türn (1899–1993), Estonian chess player
• Turn (policy debate), an argument that proves the opposite
• TURN (The Utility Reform Network), a consumer advocacy organization in California, US
• Inventory turns, a management concept

See also

• Tern (disambiguation)
• Tourn, the patrol circuit made by sheriffs in medieval England
• Turn, Turn, Turn (disambiguation)
• Turn-by-turn navigation