- Look up
yaw in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Yaw or yaws may
refer to:
Yaw angle (or
yaw rotation), one of the
angular degrees of
freedom of any stiff...
- An
aircraft in
flight is free to
rotate in
three dimensions:
yaw, nose left or
right about an axis
running up and down; pitch, nose up or down
about an...
- A
yaw rotation is a
movement around the
yaw axis of a
rigid body that
changes the
direction it is pointing, to the left or
right of its
direction of motion...
- A
yaw-rate
sensor is a
gyroscopic device that
measures a vehicle's
yaw rate, its
angular velocity around its
vertical axis. The
angle between the vehicle's...
- A
yaw damper (sometimes
referred to as a
stability augmentation system) is a
system used to
reduce (or damp) the
undesirable tendencies of an aircraft...
- The
yaw system of wind
turbines is the
component responsible for the
orientation of the wind
turbine rotor towards the wind. The task of
orienting the...
-
Yaw is a
masculine given name
originating from the Akan
people and
their day
naming system,
meaning "born on a Thursday" in Akan language,
following their...
- The
yaw drive is an
important component of the
horizontal axis wind turbines'
yaw system. To
ensure the wind
turbine is
producing the
maximal amount of...
- The
Yaw people (Burmese: ယောလူမျိုး) live in
Gangaw District,
Burma and
Pakokku District number about 200,000 people. They
speak the
Yaw dialect of the...
-
Yahweh was an
ancient Levantine deity, and
national god of the
Israelite kingdoms of
Israel and Judah.
Though no
consensus exists regarding the deity's...
