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What is the difference between heading and yaw?

heading | yaw |

As verbs the difference between heading and yaw

is that heading is (head) while yaw is (aviation) to turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.

As nouns the difference between heading and yaw

is that heading is the title or topic of a document, article, chapter etc while yaw is the 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.

heading

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
  • (nautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
  • Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
  • (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
  • (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
  • (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
    • (Knight)

    Derived terms

    * subheading

    yaw

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia yaw) (en noun)
  • The 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.
  • 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.
  • An act of yawing.
  • (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
  • The extent of yawing, the rotation angle about the vertical axis
    • the yaw of an aircraft

    See also

    * heading * pitch * roll * surge * scend

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
  • (nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
  • (nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
  • * Lowell
    • Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.
  • To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

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