WNW

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WNW

abbr.

west-northwest

WNW

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(Mathematics & Measurements / Navigation) west-northwest

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WNW - the compass point midway between west and northwest

west northwest

compass point, point - any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass"

Translations

WNW ABBR =west-northwest → ONO

WNW abbr of west-north-west → WNW

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This made us all run out upon the quarter-deck, where for a while we heard nothing; but in a few minutes we saw a very great light, and found that there was some very terrible fire at a distance; immediately we had recourse to our reckonings, in which we all agreed that there could be no land that way in which the fire showed itself, no, not for five hundred leagues, for it appeared at WNW.

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