Yaw

Yaw or yaws may refer to:

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