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Gierwinkel — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • yaw noun The rotation of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle from side to side around its vertical axis.

Senses

Gierwinkel is used for these senses in English:

  • yaw 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.

yaw — full definition

  1. noun The rotation of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle from side to side around its vertical axis.
  2. verb To swing off course from side to side.

Related German words