Usually means: Cease operation or stop functioning.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word turn off:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. turn off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. turn off: Merriam-Webster
  3. turn off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. turn-off, turn-off, turn off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. turn off: Vocabulary.com
  6. Turn-Off, Turn-off, turn-off: Wordnik
  7. turn-off, turn off (sth): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. turn-off, turn off: Wiktionary
  9. turn off: Dictionary.com
  10. turn off: Rhymezone
  11. turn off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. turn off: Phrasal Verb Page
  13. turn off: FreeDictionary.org
  14. turn off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. turn-off, turn off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Turn-off, turn off: Legal dictionary
  2. turn off: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turn-off, turn off: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turn off: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. turn off, turn off, turn off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. turn-off: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. turn-off: ESL Slang page
  4. Turn off: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See turn_offs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (turn off)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To dismiss; to fire.
verb:  (transitive) To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To become deactivated; to become powered down.
verb:  (transitive) To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.
verb:  (transitive) To repulse, disgust, or discourage (someone).
verb:  (intransitive) To leave a road; to exit.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To turn out; to produce.
verb:  (slang, obsolete, transitive) To execute by hanging.

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