Turnaround

The term Turnaround may mean:

• [(computing)], a measure that tracks the time required to complete execution of a job
• Turnaround (company), meaning turning a company from being unprofitable or underperforming to performing well. The measures of performance may include profitability, cash flow, market share etc.
• 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 (education), a term used to describe dramatic interventions in a chronically underperforming school intended to quickly transform it from bad to great while maintaining some or most of the school's students and staff.

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 (Katrina and the Waves album, released in 1994
• 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
• "Turnaround", a song by Ornette Coleman, originally released on "Tomorrow Is the Question!", 1959.

See also

• Turn Around