(n.) A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.
(n.) An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Data from magnetic tapes written on a turnkey laboratory system are used as the basis for generating the archival tapes.
(2) The point we should derive from Snowden’s revelations – a point originally expressed in March 2013 by William Binney, a former senior NSA crypto-mathematician – is that the NSA’s Utah Data Center will amount to a “turnkey” system that, in the wrong hands, could transform the country into a totalitarian state virtually overnight.
(3) Although many hospitals subscribe to abstract or turnkey systems, others are leaving shared services to set up their own in-house systems.
(4) SMLMs are delivered as turnkey systems consisting of the microfiche collection, a reader-printer, four fiche readers, necessary furniture, and promotional and training materials.
(5) Major software advances have taken place through the availability of applications packages that are operated with menu-driven or point-and-click user interfaces, data flow languages, or complete turnkey applications.
(6) The third approach is to purchase a turnkey system, with some modifications provided by the manufacturer for a specific clinical application.
(7) It provides an effective shell for custom software prototyping and turnkey applications.
(8) Right now it’s designed for peak saving, so we charge them at night when the grid is stable and electricity is cheap and discharge during the day.” John Jung, CEO of Greensmith, a supplier of turnkey energy storage systems, says this application is the most common in energy storage, with the majority of large-scale customers being more interested in reliability and cost reductions.
(9) I have found that with the hardware and software described in this paper, I was able to obtain, in a much more cost-effective manner, as useful preoperative information for my practice as I could obtain with more expensive "turnkey" (only one use) computerized imaging systems.
(10) Hidden away in offices of various government departments, intelligence agencies, police forces and armed forces are dozens and dozens of people who are very much upset by what our societies are turning into: at the very least, turnkey tyrannies.
(11) Although turnkey systems may offer significant economies for single well-defined and repetitive tasks, they may not permit sufficient flexibility to achieve the diverse aims required by many research programs.