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  1.                 From en.wikipedia.org:
                    

    [turn] 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: [TOC right]

    ** 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 [geo]