Meaning of Yaw | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
2. A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
3. A surname.
4. The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
5. A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
6. The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.

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Examples

“the yaw of an aircraft”

“Sometimes there remains one large Yaw, high and knobbed, red and moist; this is called the master Yaw; […]”

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