Turnaround

[turn-uh-round]

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

Turnaround (book), 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