turret

English

The turret (marked in pink) of a baronial house in Argyll, Scotland

A siege tower

The turret of a South African Olifant Mk 1A main battle tank

Electronic components soldered on a turret board

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŭr'ət, IPA: /ˈtʌrət/, X-SAMPA: /"tVr@t/
• Rhymes: -ʌrət

Etymology

From Old English touret, Old French tourette, diminutive of tour a tower, Latin turris. See tower

Noun

Wikipedia turret (plural turrets)

1. (architecture) a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle
2. (historical, military) a siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries
3. (military) an armoured, rotating gun installation, on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle
4. (rail transport) the elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation
5. (electronics) a tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes)

Synonyms

• (military): cupola

Translations

a little tower

• Esperanto: tureto (eo)

• Jèrriais: touothelle f
• Swedish: turell (sv) c, torn (sv) n, vakttorn (sv) n, utkikstorn (sv) n

a movable building

• Swedish: belägringstorn (sv) n

a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates

• Finnish: tykkitorni (fi)
• Russian: башенка (ru) (bášenka) f 

• Swedish: kanontorn (sv) n

the elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car

a solder post

Derived terms

• turret board
• turret clock
• turret head
• turret lathe
• turret ship

Anagrams

• rutter