turnstile

See also: turn-stile

English

Etymology

turn +‎ stile

A set of turnstiles in the USA

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːnstaɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝnstaɪl/

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Noun

turnstile (plural turnstiles)

1. A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.
   • 1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, in Railway Magazine, page 224:

     The fare was fixed at 2d., irrespective of distance, and was paid by passengers on passing through turnstiles at each station.

2. A similar device in a footpath to allow people through one at a time while preventing the passage of cattle.
3. (mathematics, logic) The $\vdash$ symbol used to represent logical entailment (deducibility relation), especially of the syntactic type; i.e., syntactic consequence. (Such symbol can be read as "prove(s)" or "give(s)". )

Derived terms

• turnstile attendance

 

Related terms

• (mathematics, logic): double turnstile

Translations

rotating mechanical device

• Armenian: պտուտակադռնակ (ptutakadṙnak)
• Catalan: torniquet
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 閘機／闸机 (zaap⁶ gei¹)

  Mandarin: 閘機／闸机 (zhájī) (mainland China), 通關機／通关机 (tōngguānjī) (Taiwan), 驗票閘門／验票闸门 (yànpiào zhámén) (Taiwan)

• Czech: turniket (cs) m
• Danish: drejekors
• Dutch: tourniquet (nl), draaihek (nl) n, draaikruis n
• Esperanto: turnbariero
• Faroese: krossbummur m
• Finnish: kääntöportti
• French: tourniquet (fr) m
• German: Drehkreuz (de) n
• Hungarian: beléptetőkapu, forgókorlát, forgósorompó, forgókereszt (hu), forgóajtó (hu)
• Irish: geata casta m
• Italian: tornello (it) m
• Japanese: 自動改札機 (じどうかいさつき, jidō kaisatsuki)
• Korean: 개집표기 (gaejip'pyogi)
• Plautdietsch: Dreipuat n
• Polish: kołowrót (pl) m, turnikiet m, bramka (pl) f, bramka obrotowa f
• Portuguese: roleta (pt), catraca (pt), borboleta (pt) f, torniquete (pt) m
• Romanian: turnichet (ro)
• Russian: турнике́т (ru) m (turnikét)
• Spanish: molinete (es) m, torniquete m, tornante m, roleta f, tornelo m
• Swedish: vändkors (sv)
• Tagalog: biling-bilingan
• Turkish: turnike (tr)
• Ukrainian: турніке́т m (turnikét)
• Vietnamese: cổng xoay, cổng quay, cửa xoay, cửa quay
• Welsh: giât dro f, llidiart tro m