Turnaround

The term Turnaround may mean:

* Turnaround (road), a civil engineering term for a type of junction which enables traffic heading in one direction to efficiently turn around and head in the opposite direction. It is sometimes used as a synonym for "cul-de-sac". The term can also refer to the maneuver of reversing a vehicle's direction (including maneuvers which require backing up, such as the three point turnaround).
* Turnaround (music), in jazz or blues, a term referring to a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section.
* Turnaround (film industry term), the process in film production where the rights to a project one studio has developed are sold to another studio in exchange for the cost of development. Often used as jargon meaning the death of a project.
* Turnaround (refining), a term meaning a scheduled large-scale maintenance activity wherein an entire process unit is taken offstream for an extended period for comprehensive revamp and renewal. This operation involves a lot of preparation, and many precautions are taken because this is a dangerous operation (especially at startup).
* Turnaround (finance), the purchase of a security and its sale on the same day

Turnaround may also mean:
* An electronics term for the action of switching an I/O port between a high-impedance input state and an active output state.
* In logistics, turnaround time is the time between the placement of an order and its delivery.
* In terms of postal delivery, a turnaround occurs when a letter or package is delivered to the wrong post office, and must be resent by said post office in order to arrive to the correct one.

Titles

* , an account of the turnaround of the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, by Mitt Romney (released in 2007).
* "Turnaround" (Stan Rogers album), released in 1978
* "Turnaround" (Westlife album), released in 2003
* "Turnaround," a song by Alan Green, Harry Belafonte, and Malvina Reynolds
* "Turnaround", a song by Devo, originally released as a B-Side of their single "Whip It", later rerecorded by Nirvana and released on Incesticide.
* "Turnaround", a play by Roger Kumble, the third in his "Pay or Play" trilogy, about the dark side of the entertainment industry

ee also

*Turn Around