YAW

Yaw

A yaw rotation is a movement around the yaw axis of a vehicle that changes the direction the vehicle is facing, to the left or right of its direction of motion. The yaw rate or yaw velocity of a car or other rigid body is the angular velocity of this rotation, or rate of change of the heading angle when the aircraft is horizontal. It is commonly measured in degrees per second or radians per second.

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yaw

Noun

  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. 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.
  3. An act of yawing.
  4. A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
  5. The extent of yawing, the rotation angle about the vertical axis
    the yaw of an aircraft

Verb

  1. To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
  2. To swerve off course to port or starboard.
  3. To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
  4. To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.


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