Turn

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Turn may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Dance and sports

• 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

Film and television

• Turn (film), a 2001 Japanese film
• The Turn (2012 film), a short film about a faded comedian who steals the material of a younger star in order to re-attain fame
• Turn: Washington's Spies, a 2014 television series on AMC, which takes place during the American Revolutionary War

Games

• Turn (game), a segment of a game
• Turn (poker), the fourth of five community cards

Literature

• Turn (poetry), or volta, a major shift in a poem's rhetorical and/or dramatic trajectory
• 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

Albums

• Turn (Great Big Sea album), a 1999 folk album
• Turn (The Ex album), a 2004 punk album
• Turn (Roscoe Mitchell album), a 2005 jazz album
• Turn LP, a 2005 rock album by Turn
• The Turn (album), a 2007 Alison Moyet album
• The Turn, a 2014 Amber Pacific album
• The Turn (Live album), a 2014 album by Live

Songs

• "Turn" (Feeder song), 2001
• "Turn" (Travis song), 1999
• "Turn", on the 2010 album Rush by Veronica Mehta
• "Turn", on the 1981 album For Future Reference by Dramatis

Places

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

Science, and technology

• Turn (biochemistry), an element of secondary structure in proteins
• Turn (geometry), a unit of angle
• Turn (rational trigonometry)
• Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN), a computer network protocol

People

• Johannes Türn (1899–1993), Estonian chess player

Other uses

• Turn (knot), a component of a knot
• Turn (policy debate), an argument that proves the opposite
• TURN (The Utility Reform Network), a consumer advocacy organization in California, US
• Turning, a machining operation
• 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