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Definition of Turnround
1. Noun. Act or process of unloading and loading and servicing a vessel or aircraft for a return trip.
Definition of Turnround
1. Noun. (alternative form of turnaround) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turnround
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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