turnstile

Plural: turnstiles

Noun

• a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering
• A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.
• A similar device in a footpath to allow people through one at a time while preventing the passage of cattle.
• The ⊢ symbol used to represent logical entailment (deducibility relation), especially of the syntactic type; i.e., syntactic consequence. (Such symbol can be read as "prove(s)" or "give(s)". )

Related Words

double turnstile