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TURNOVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of upsetting something
Example:
he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("turnover" is a kind of...):
inversion; upending (turning upside down; setting on end)
Derivation:
turn over (turn from an upright or normal position)
turn over (cause to overturn from an upright or normal position)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The volume measured in dollars
Example:
the store's dollar volume continues to rise
Synonyms:
dollar volume; turnover
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("turnover" is a kind of...):
bulk; mass; volume (the property of something that is great in magnitude)
Derivation:
turn over (do business worth a certain amount of money)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("turnover" is a kind of...):
dish (a particular item of prepared food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "turnover"):
apple turnover (turnover with an apple filling)
knish ((Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack)
pirogi; piroshki; pirozhki (small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried)
samosa (small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot)
Derivation:
turn over (turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers
Synonyms:
employee turnover; turnover; turnover rate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("turnover" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
Context examples:
Increased cell turnover is known to play a role in tumor development.
(Food additives promote inflammation, colon cancer in mice, National Institutes of Health)
By preventing osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, piridronic acid decreases bone turnover and stabilizes the bone matrix.
(Piridronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in development of the nervous system and protein turnover.
(NEURL Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Clodronate binds to calcium and inhibits osteoclastic bone resorption and hydroxyapatite crystal formation and dissolution, resulting in a reduction of bone turnover.
(Clodronate Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)
The pentose phosphate pathway is a process of glucose turnover that produces NADPH as reducing equivalents and pentoses as essential parts of nucleotides.
(Pentose Phosphate Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
This increases serotonin levels within the synaptic cleft, prolongs serotonergic transmission and decreased serotonin turnover, thereby leading to antidepressant, anxiolytic and antiobsessive-compulsive effects.
(Fluvoxamine, NCI Thesaurus)
Presenilin stimulates beta-catenin turnover, reducing its transcriptional activation.
(Notch and Wnt Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
By preventing osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, neridronic acid decreases bone turnover rate, stabilizes the bone matrix and reduces hypercalcemia.
(Neridronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
By inhibiting osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, ibandronic acid increases bone mineral density, decreases bone remodeling and turnover, as well as reduces bone pain.
(Ibandronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
The continuous turnover of bone matrix and mineral that involves first, an increase in bone resorption (osteoclastic activity) and later, reactive bone formation (osteoblastic activity).
(Innate Bone Remodeling, NCI Thesaurus)
