about turn

1. 1.

   act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation

   Synonymsabout-face

   Broaderreversion

Questions about about turn

What does about turn mean?

about turn means "act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation".

What is another word for about turn?

Close synonyms include about-face. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is about turn a common word?

about turn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.