Turtle (disambiguation)
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The word turtle has several meanings:
- The animal turtle.
- The Turtle (1775) was the first military submarine. It was built by American David Bushnell with the intention of sinking British warships during the American Revolutionary War.
- DSV-3 Turtle (1968) is a retired Deep Submergence Vehicle of the US Navy.
- A turtle is a type of robot which moves round on wheels on a flat surface. Its movements can be programmed in using a computer or it can programmed to perform pseudorandom movements. When it is low on energy it will return to its home for a power up.
- A virtual turtle was the basis of the turtle graphics system used by the Logo programming language.
- A robotic turtle was a paper plotting device for use with the Logo programming language, which rolled on the floor on large expanses of paper, obeying Logo commands.
- Turtle (game term) is also a game term.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or Ninja Turtles), an early 90s kids TV show.
- Turtle is a nickname for a type of Raised pavement marker generally used in California and the Pacific Northwest.
- Turtle is also a sort of candy, made from chocolate, caramel, and pecans.
People named Turtle
- Turtle is a character in the HBO television series Entourage.
- Turtle (actor) is a member of the band, The Classics, and has acted in five movies, including Dude, Where's My Car?.
- Turtle (mural artist) is a mural artist for the dramatic picture Old Man Music.
- Turtle (boom operator) was a boom operator for the fantasy porn movie Haven's Heaven.
- Turtle (character) is a character in a book called The Westing Game.
- A group of about 2 dozen people who were trained and taught in the early to mid-1980s how to profitably trade futures contracts by famous speculators Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt are also called Turtles.
- A turtle is a member of the loosely organized Turtle Club.
- There is an American folk-rock band called The Turtles, best known for the 1967 hit "Happy Together".
