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UK
/tˈʌɹɪt/
]
[ US /ˈtɝət, ˈtɝt/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝət, ˈtɝt/ ]
NOUN
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
- a small tower extending above a building
How To Use turret In A Sentence
- Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets. Steel Victory
- Earlier, in the B turret of the Achilles, there had been a temporary delay in the shell supply, and the gunhouse crews took the ready-use shells from their racks and fed them into the guns. Graf Spee
- He had been standing in the turret of a tank with his friend when the tank was hit. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
- Three smoke grenade dischargers are mounted on each side of the turret.
- Bob squeezed his muscular shoulders into the narrow confines of the top turret.
- Vehicles would move to ‘points of domination’ (the intersections) to maximize the ability to traverse the turret and use the CITV.
- Black, a popular color at this time, accents her turret and frontlet, collar, cuffs, and wide hem. Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands
- The armoured turret has both laying and stabilisation drives and power supply.
- In the TK 105 turret, for daytime operations, the commander is provided with wide field episcopes and a 360° panoramic M389 sight with x 2 and x 8 magnifications.
- This must have been owing to her recollection of the audacious stranger in the neighbouring turret at the Fleur de Lys; but did that discomposure express displeasure? Quentin Durward