A surname of Germanic origin. / Alan Turing (1912–1954), a British logician and early computer scientist. / (computing) A programming language (named after Alan Turing).

plural of Turing machine

plural of Turing test

(artificial intelligence) A test of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence, as measured by whether a human judge can reliably distinguish the computer from another human being by conversing with both entities in natural, but written only, language over a terminal.

(computer science, logic) A measure of the level of algorithmic unsolvability of the decision problem of whether a given set of natural numbers contains any given number.

plural of universal Turing machine

plural of Turing computable function

plural of Turing jump

(computing theory) In computability theory, an operation that assigns to each decision problem X a successively harder decision problem X′ with the property that X′ is not decidable by an oracle machine with an oracle for X.

(cryptography) A manual cryptanalysis technique used in breaking the Lorenz cipher during World War II, based on deducing the wheel settings of the machine that did the encryption.