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Definitions of turret in various dictionaries:
noun - a small tower extending above a building
noun - a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
A small tower or tower-shaped projection on a building.
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| (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside a B-17.) One of the great poems of World War II is about the death of a gunner in this turret named for its shape crewman routinely flew 12-hour missions crammed in here |
| Naturally, the name of this type of small tower comes from a word for "tower" |
| It's a small castle tower or something that holds a gun on a military tank |
| Here's an example from Spain of this circular tower |
| A small tower, or a revolving gun structure on a military plane |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the National World War I Museum.) With a two-man crew and a top speed of just 5 miles per hour, the Renault FT-17 revolutionized tank design with its ability to point its gun in any direction, thanks to this rotating top section, from the French for "tower" |
| A small tower in a fortress |
| As seen here, it's a small tower that rises up from a castle wall |
| As seen here, it's a small tower that rises up from a castle wall |
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In architecture, a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Turrets were used to provide a projecting defensive position allowing covering fire to the adjacent wall in the days of military fortification. As their military use faded, turrets were used for decorative purposes, as in the Scottish baronial style. * A turret can have a circular top with crenelations as seen in the picture at right, a pointed roof, or other kind of apex. It might contain a staircase if it projects higher than the building; however, a turret is not necessarily higher than the rest of the building; in this case, it is typically part of a room, that can be simply walked into see the turret of Chateau de Chaumont on the collection of turrets, which also illustrates a turret on a modern skyscraper. * A building may have both towers and turrets; turrets might be smaller or higher but turrets ins |
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