Yaw

Yaw or yaws may refer to:

Measurement and technology

Movement about the vertical axis

• Yaw angle (or yaw rotation), one of the angular degrees of freedom of any stiff body (for example a vehicle), describing rotation about the vertical axis
  • Yaw (aviation), one of the aircraft principal axes of rotation, describing motion about the vertical axis of an aircraft (nose-left or nose-right angle measured from vertical axis)
  • Yaw (ship motion), one of the ship motions' principal axes of rotation, describing motion about the vertical axis of a ship (bow-left or bow-right angle measured from vertical axis)
• Yaw rate (or yaw velocity), the angular speed of yaw rotation, measured with a yaw rate sensor
• Yawing moment, the angular momentum of a yaw rotation, important for adverse yaw in aircraft dynamics

Wind turbines

• Yaw system, a yaw angle control system in wind turbines responsible for the orientation of the rotor towards the wind
  • Yaw bearing, the most crucial and cost intensive component of modern horizontal axis wind turbine yaw systems
  • Yaw drive, an important component of modern horizontal axis wind turbine yaw systems

Other technology

• Yaws (web server)

People and religion

• Yaw (ethnic group), a Burmese ethnic group
• Yaw (name), a Ghanaian given name for a boy born on Thursday
• Ellen Beach Yaw (1869–1947), a concert singer
• Eugene Yaw (born 1943), a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
• Shane Dawson (born Shane Lee Yaw in 1987)
• Yaw (god), a Levantine god

Other

• Yaw-Yan, a Filipino martial art
• Yaws, a tropical disease
• CFB Shearwater (ICAO: CYAW), Shearwater, Nova Scotia Canada

See also

• Yours (disambiguation), various meanings, most prominently as a pronoun
• Yew (disambiguation)