Turn may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Dance and sports

* Turn (dance and gymnastics), rotation of the body *

Turn (swimming) In swimming, a turn is a reversal of direction of travel by a swimmer. A turn is typically performed when a swimmer reaches the end of a swimming pool but still has one or more remaining pool lengths to swim. Types *Open turn: is where the swim ...

, 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

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)

Games

Turn (game) In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them. A rule is an instruction on how to play, a ludeme is an element of play like the L-shap ...

, a segment of a game * Turn (poker), the fourth of five community cards

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) Turn are an Irish band. History Turn formed in 1998 when lead singer/guitarist Ollie Cole and drummer Ian Melady joined forces with Dublin bass player Gavin Fox, whom they met at a local recording studio. Cole and Melady had been friends since y ...

, an Irish rock group *

Turn (music) In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added ...

, a sequence of adjacent notes in the scale *

Turn Records Turn Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 in Santa Clara, California by Jeff Walsh, who was a DJ at KSCU ( Santa Clara University) at the time. The label's first release was by local band the Contrail, and Turn has gone put out n ...

, an independent record label based in Santa Clara, California, US * Turn (ornament), 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" (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 ''Choking on Lilies'' is the debut studio album of Hexedene, released in 1997 by Matrix Cube. The album was re-issued in 1998 with an expanded and rearranged track listing by Re-Constriction Records. Reception Scott Hefflon of ''Lollipop Magaz ...

'', 1997 * "Turn", by New Order from ''

Waiting for the Sirens' Call ''Waiting for the Sirens' Call'' is the eighth studio album by English Rock music, rock band New Order (band), New Order. The album was released on 28 March 2005 in the United Kingdom and 26 April 2005 in the United States, and was preceded by th ...

'', 2005

Places

Turn, Kočevje Turn (; german: Turn or ''Thurn'Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36.Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevs ...

, a former settlement in Slovenia *

Turn Village Turn Village is a hamlet in the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England. It is located in the South Pennines, on the A680 road between Edenfield and Norden. Population details are included in Ramsbottom. The surrounding moorland is the site f ...

, in Lancashire, England * Tirns, (West Frisian: ''Turns'') a village in the Netherlands

Science and technology

Turn (biochemistry) A turn is an element of secondary structure in proteins where the polypeptide chain reverses its overall direction. Definition According to one definition, a turn is a structural motif where the Cα atoms of two residues separated by a few (usu ...

, an element of secondary structure in proteins * Turn (geometry), a unit of angle * Turn (rational trigonometry) * Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN), a computer network protocol * A loop of wire in an

electromagnetic coil An electromagnetic coil is an electrical Electrical conductivity, conductor such as a wire in the shape of a wiktionary:coil, coil (spiral or helix). Electromagnetic coils are used in electrical engineering, in applications where electric curre ...

Other uses

Johannes Türn Johannes Türn (27 May 1899, in Tartu – 8 March 1993, in Tallinn) was an Estonian chess player. Biography Türn played in numerous Estonian championships. In 1923, he took 2nd, behind Paul Rinne, in Tallinn (1st EST-ch). In 1925, he won in Ta ...

(1899–1993), Estonian chess player *

The Turn (Heidegger) Martin Heidegger, the 20th-century German philosopher, produced a large body of work that intended a profound change of direction for philosophy. Such was the depth of change that he found it necessary to introduce many neologisms, often connected ...

Turn (knot) A turn is one round of rope on a belaying pin, pin or cleat (nautical), cleat, or one round of a coil. Turns can be made around various objects, through torus, rings, or around the standing part of the rope itself or another rope. A turn also deno ...

, a component of a knot *

Turn (policy debate) This is a glossary of policy debate terms. Affirmative In policy debate (also called ''cross-examination debate'' in some circuits, namely the University Interscholastic League of Texas), the ''Affirmative'' is the team that affirms the resolu ...

, an argument that proves the opposite *

TURN (The Utility Reform Network) TURN (The Utility Reform Network) is a consumer advocacy organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. In 1972, Sylvia Siegel started TURN in her kitchen to represent consumers before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), ...

, a consumer advocacy organization in California, US *

Turning Turning is a machining process in which a cutting tool, typically a non-rotary tool bit, describes a helix toolpath by moving more or less linearly while the workpiece rotates. Usually the term "turning" is reserved for the generation of ...

, a machining operation *

Inventory turns In accounting, the inventory turnover is a measure of the number of times inventory is sold or used in a time period such as a year. It is calculated to see if a business has an excessive inventory in comparison to its sales level. The equation f ...

, a management concept