Yaw

The word yaw can refer to:

• Yaw angle, one of the Tait-Bryan angles, describing the heading of a vehicle or machine, and some other related elements:
  • Yaw system, component responsible for the orientation of a wind turbine towards the wind.
  • Yaw bearing, one of the components to keep optimal heading in a wind turbine.
• Yaw axis, vertical axis of an aircraft, and some other related elements:
  • Yaw (rotation) or Aerobatic maneuvers, rotations around the vertical axis; part of roll, pitch, and yaw and an aspect of flight dynamics in aircraft and spacecraft
  • Yaw rate sensor, angular speed of yaw rotation
• Yaw (god), Levantine god
• Yaw drive, wind turbine component
• YAW, Halifax/Shearwater Heliport's IATA code
• Ellen Beach Yaw (1869–1947), concert singer
• Yàw, Thursday, see Akan day names
• Yaw-Yan, Filipino martial art
• Yaws, tropical disease
• Yaws (web server)
• Yaw (ethnic group), a Burmese ethnic group
• YAW (Yoonu Askaan Wi), a Senegalese political party
• Yaw (Shaft angle measurement) The yaw is the substitute term for the angle of the shaft of the Penis. Phrase was coined on South Park.

See also

• Yours (pronoun)