Usually means: Rotation around a vertical axis.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word yaw:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. yaw: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yaw: Merriam-Webster
  3. yaw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yaw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yaw: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yaw: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yaw, yaw: Wordnik
  8. yaw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Yaw, yaw: Wiktionary
  10. yaw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. yaw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. yaw: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yaw: Dictionary.com
  14. yaw: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Yaw (Akan), Yaw (god), Yaw (name), Yaw (rotation), Yaw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Yaw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. yaw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. yaw: Rhymezone
  19. Yaw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. yaw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. yaw: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. yaw: FreeDictionary.org
  23. yaw: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. yaw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. yaw: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yaw (disambiguation), Yaw (flight), yaw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. yaw: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Yaw (disambiguation), yaw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. YAW: Acronym Finder
  2. YAW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yaw: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yaw: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Yaw: Sports Definitions

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. yaw: Chapters in the Sky
  5. YAW: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  6. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Yaw: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  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.
noun:  (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
noun:  The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
verb:  (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
verb:  (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
noun:  A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
noun:  A surname.

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