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TURNS

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1. Turns

   An expression applied to the convolutions of wire in a solenoid, electro-magnet, or other apparatus or construction of that kind. A turn indicates a complete encircling of the core or axis of the object. Thus a wire wound five times around a bar gives five turns. While this is its primary meaning the term if compounded may refer to virtual turns. Thus an ampere-turn means one ampere passing through one turn. But ten ampere-turns may mean ten amperes passing through ten turns, five amperes passing through two turns, and so on. This use is analogous to a dimension of length in a compound word, as foot-pound. [Transcriber's note: "But ten ampere-turns may mean ten amperes passing through ONE turn or one ampere through ten turns, and so on."] There may be a number of kinds of turns qualified by descriptive adjectives, as series-turns, the turns of wire in a series circuit of a compound dynamo. In the same way there are shunt-turns. If series ampere-turns or shunt ampere-turns are meant the word ampere should be included.

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   Rank popularity for the word 'TURNS' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3238

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   Rank popularity for the word 'TURNS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2305

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of TURNS in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of TURNS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of TURNS in a Sentence

1. Bob Dylan:

   Leon Redbonecrossed went on to put out 16 more records. Leon Redbonecrossed career got a boost in the early 1970s when Bob Dylan met Bob Dylan at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Ontario, Canada, and praised Leon Redbonecrossed performance. Bob Dylan said that if Bob Dylan ever started a label, Bob Dylan would have signed Leon Redbonecrossed. Leon interests me, ive heard hes anywhere from 25 to 60, Ive been( a foot and a half from him) and I cant tell, but you got ta see him. He does old Jimmie Rodgers, then turns around and does a Robert Johnson.

2. Miguel de Cervantes:

   'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it.

3. Noel Le Graet:

   It's dramatic. Stocks have run out all over the world. We can't meet demand. We're ahead of Brazil in numbers of jerseys sold, as soon as a jersey turns up in any of our shops across the world, it's snapped up.

4. Émile Durkheim:

   It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

5. Northeastern University law professor:

   The question is : You fire into a crowd, it’s foreseeable that people would then run. Are you then accountable if it turns out one of the people who ran has asthma ? let’s take it another step. . . . It’s foreseeable that someone who ran for their life would get hit by a car. To what extent is that different ? The fact that the means of death is unusual, does that matter when the fact of death is foreseeable ?

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