Definition of Turnround

1. Noun. Act or process of unloading and loading and servicing a vessel or aircraft for a return trip.

Exact synonyms: Turnaround
Generic synonyms: Preparation, Readying

Definition of Turnround

1. Noun. (alternative form of turnaround) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turnround

turnout
turnout gear
turnouts
turnover
turnover flap
turnover number
turnover rate
turnovers
turnpike
turnpike doubles
turnpiked
turnpikes
turnpiking
turnplate
turnplates
turnround (current term)
turns
turns against
turns around
turns away
turns back
turns back the clock
turns down
turns in
turns in one's grave
turns into
turns loose
turns off
turns on
turns out

Literary usage of Turnround

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elementary Treatise on Physics: Experimental and Applied, for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1877)
"Now if a watch were placed with its face upwards on the paper, the force P would cause the arm AN to turnround A in the contrary direction to the hands of ..."

2. Capital (1888)
"... at the ports are removed by a time-bound programme without delay for a faster turnround of ships. This will ensure better economic utilisation of ships. ..."

3. Latin America Today by Pablo González Casanova (1993)
"The repression exercised against her movement in 1925 checked its rebel impetus to the point where, in an ironic turnround. the government of the state ..."

4. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"We have hitherto supposed the magnet B to be placed in the direction of the axis of A, and only at liberty to turnround its centre B. But let its centre be ..."

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