Yaw or yaws may refer to:

Measurement and technology

Movement about the vertical axis

Yaw angle The Euler angles are three angles introduced by Leonhard Euler to describe the Orientation (geometry), orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed coordinate system.Novi Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 20, 1776, pp. 189� ...

(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 Yaw-Yan (from Filipino ''Sayaw ng Kamatayan'', lit. ''"Dance of Death"''), is a Filipino martial art developed by Napoleon A. Fernandez and based on older Filipino martial arts. Since its inception in the 1970s, it has dominated the kickboxing ...