turret

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

   Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.

2. 2
   noun

   a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation

3. 3
   noun

   a small tower extending above a building

4. 4
   noun

   A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

5. 5
   noun

   A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).

6. 6
   noun

   An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.

7. 7
   noun

   The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.

8. 8
   noun

   A turret head.

Etymology

From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower.