- Look up
turret in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Turret may
refer to:
Turret (architecture), a
small tower that
projects above the wall of a building...
- used at the
beginning of the 1860s,
turrets were
normally cylindrical.
Barbettes were an
alternative to
turrets; with a
barbette the
protection was fixed...
- some
phone trading persists and
trading turrets are
common on
trading desks of
investment banks.
Trading turrets,
unlike typical phone systems, have a number...
- skys****er. A
building may have both
towers and
turrets;
towers might be
smaller or higher, but
turrets instead project from the edge of a
building rather...
-
arose from the
turret's spherical housing. It was a
manned turret, as
distinct from remote-controlled
turrets also in use. The
turret held the gunner...
- one or more
turrets. Such
machine tools can work in two axes per
turret, with up to six axes
being feasible for
complex work.
Vertical turret lathes have...
- of the gun
relies on the
upper part of the
turret moving relative to the
lower part.
Oscillating turrets have
rarely been used.
Their only widespread...
- and die set,
there are two
corresponding turrets,
above and
below the bed, for
punch and die.
These two
turrets must
rotate in
precise synchronisation and...
- the
turret's base ring. In June 1944, the RAF
placed an
order for 600 Rose
turrets after the
problems with the
design had been resolved. The
turrets were...
- only
rivalled by the
Dover harbour Admiralty Pier
Turret at the time. Hogg, R., "The Tyne
Turrets:coastal
defence in the
First World War", Fort (Fortress...