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What is a turret?

What is a turret? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
  2. (historical, military) 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.
  3. (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
  4. (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
  5. (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
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The missiles are mounted on launcher rails on the walls of a rotatable turret.
The tank has a turret that can be used like the water cannon, except that it destroys whatever it hits.
I swooped down on them, making the rat-a-tat sound of the turret guns and the thud and boom of the bombs.
The close proximity of light poles, vending stands and buildings severely limited our ability to traverse the turret.
Each corner of these square towers is again surmounted by a projecting octagon turret, machicolated.
Each turret was controlled separately and remotely from the bridge of the saucer.

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