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Yaw

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1.SymbolISO 639-3 language code for Yawalapití.
2.NounThe 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.
3.NounThe 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.
4.NounA vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
5.NounThe extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
"the yaw of an aircraft"
6.VerbTo turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
7.VerbTo swerve off course to port or starboard.
8.VerbTo steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
9.VerbTo rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
10.NounA single tumor in the disease called yaws.
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