Turn
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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
 - Turn: Washington's Spies, 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, 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
 - 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
 
See also
- Tern (disambiguation)
 - Tourn, the patrol circuit made by sheriffs in medieval England
 - Turn, Turn, Turn (disambiguation)
 - Turn-by-turn navigation