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Turret

//ˈtɝ.ɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

    "Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim."

  2. 2
    a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation wordnet
  3. 3
    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. historical
  4. 4
    a small tower extending above a building wordnet
  5. 5
    A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
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  1. 6
    An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
  2. 7
    The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
  3. 8
    A turret head.
  4. 9
    The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.

Etymology

From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower.

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