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a fortress that learned to spin so it never has to turn its back
means A small tower projecting from a building or vehicle, often rounded, that may house a lookout, a staircase, or a rotating gun.
from From Old French 'tourete,' a diminutive of 'tour' meaning tower — literally 'little tower' — which traces back to Latin 'turris,' tower. The word arrived in English in the medieval period, when a turret really was a slender tower clinging to a castle wall. The spinning sense — the rotating gun mount on a ship or tank — is a much later borrowing of the same shape, a little tower that swivels.
- medieval origin
- named from French for little tower
- 360 degrees
- tank turrets rotate fully to track targets
- ball turret
- WWII gunners curled inside spheres beneath bombers
- power grab
- early ones cranked by hand, slowly
- castle remix
- corner turrets gave archers wraparound sightlines
for instance
m1 abrams tank — main battle tank with rotating gun turret, first deployed by u.s. military in 1980