rotogate

English

Alternative forms

  • roto-gate

Etymology

From roto- +‎ gate.

Noun

rotogate (plural rotogates)

  1. A turnstile with its height extended to the height of a person, similar to a revolving door.
    • 2005 February, Jing Su, “Reclaiming residual space from elevated transport infrastructure : time, space, and activity under the Chicago Brown Line”, in Massachusetts Institute of Technology‎[1]:
      The entryway of the Armitage station is treated nicely with plants and a path to the exit rotogate.
    • 2009 January 19, Iris Rona, “Celebrate the opening of the rotogate!”, in ITER‎[2]:
      This morning, the "rotogate," the pedestrian access which gives all of us walking access to our colleagues on the other side of the CEA fence, has become operational.
    • 2012 March 20, Fariborz M. Bzorgi, Speed Control System for an Access Gate, US Patent 8,136,297 , page 8:
      The stationary planar barrier and the stationary curved barrier limit the passage of a person or object through the roto-gate to only a path controlled by movement of the three rotating wings of the roto-gate.
    • 2018, Graham Garfield, “Streamlined Subway: The Architecture and Design of Chicago's First Subway”, in First & Fastest‎[3]:
      However, when the subway opened in 1943, these facilities were exit-only, equipped with high rotogate exit turnstiles.
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