three-point turn

1. 1.

   the act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs

   Broaderturn

Questions about three-point turn

What does three-point turn mean?

three-point turn means "the act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs".

Is three-point turn a common word?

three-point 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.