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turntable|ˈtɜːnteɪb(ə)l|
Also turn-table.
[f. turn v. + table n.]
1. On a railway: A revolving platform turning on a central pivot, laid with rails connecting with adjacent tracks, for turning railway vehicles; a turn-plate.
1835Massachusetts Stat. 4 Apr., To unite any rail-road or rail-roads..by turn-tables or otherwise. 1838N. Wood Railroads (ed. 3) 186 On each of these lines..circular turn⁓tables are placed, upon which the carriages are run. 1854John Bull 2 Sept. 558/2 An engine having been accidentally put in motion while on the turn table, ran over a side wall, and rested on end in the street below.
2. A revolving platform, table, stand, or disk of various kinds: see quots.; spec. (a) a rotating disk on which microscope slides are held for tracing the circular cement cells in which specimens are placed for examination; (b) see quot. 1889; (c) a turning device allowing a photographic camera to rotate on the stand or tripod; (d) a rotating plate-glass show stand used in shop-windows (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895); (e) the rotating plate on which a gramophone record is placed to be played; the unit housing this plate.
1865Morn. Star 2 Sept., The burial board..determined on placing a stand, or what is called a ‘turn-table’, in the church, and also one in the chapel [for use at funerals]. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. i. iii. 254 The little box contains:—Shadbolts turn-table, brass table [etc.]. 1887T. A. Trollope What I remember II. xv. 279 His food..is passed in to him by a little turntable made in the wall. 1889Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. v. 79 The four heavy guns are carried on revolving turntables in two fixed armoured redoubts or barbettes. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. p. cxci, A special form of Turntable is fixed to the Camera, to which the legs may be quickly attached... The centre of the Turntable is cut away. 1908Sears, Roebuck Catal. 195/2 The Type FH Harvard Disc Talking Machine... The turntable, of a special composition metal, is 10 inches in diameter. 1921P. A. Scholes Learning to Listen by Means of Gramophone 157 The motor should be wound up fully for each record played, in order that the turntable can rotate at its normal and even speed. 1960Practical Wireless XXXVI. 421/2 Wedge the turntable so that it does not move. 1962Times 5 July 15/7 The disc had been standing on the turntable for a few minutes before playing. 1979L. Kallen Introducing C. B. Greenfield xiii. 166 An old armoire..held his recordings and the turntable.
3. attrib., as turn-table ladder, turntable stack.
1893Nation (N.Y.) 13 July 28/3 At the Columbian Fair there is a turn-table stack of official publications. 1912Times 19 Dec. 12/6 A horsed escape, a fire engine, a turn⁓table ladder, and ten men turned out from the Theobald's-road fire station. |