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:

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

Philosophy

 * The Turn (Heidegger)
 * Linguistic turn, an early 20th century development in Western philosophy
 * Aretaic turn in virtue ethics
 * Cultural turn, 1970s movement in the humanities and social sciences
 * Historical turn in philosophy of science
 * Performative turn, an approach to understanding human behavior
 * Spatial turn, an intellectual movement that places emphasis on place and space in social science and the humanities
 * Materiality turn, a theoretical movement in organization studies
 * Temporal turn, time in historiography and social sciences
 * Affective turn, approaches using affect theory as a way of understanding spheres of experience
 * Ontological turn, an increased interest in ontology during the early 2000s

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 Records, an independent record label based in Santa Clara, California, US
 * 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
 * Turn Village, in Lancashire, England
 * 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
 * Inventory turns, a management concept