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NNW

American  
Or N.N.W.

abbreviation

  1. north-northwest.


NNW British  

symbol

  1. north-northwest

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Their shape indicates the glacier moved in a NNW to SSE direction.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

Friday and Saturday are looking at a jump in swell reaching shoulder to head high with improving conditions and N to NNW winds at 10mph.

From Time Magazine Archive

NNW Rock Springs, 69305; Mesa Verde, northern end, 8100 ft.,

From Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Sydney Anderson

NNW Estelí contained four embryos that measured 5 mm. in crown-rump length.

From Records of Harvest Mice, Reithrodontomys, from Central America, with Description of a New Subspecies from Nicaragua by Sydney Anderson

NNW Estelí, Estelí, Nicaragua; obtained by J. R. Alcorn on July 15, 1956; original number 21,464.

From Records of Harvest Mice, Reithrodontomys, from Central America, with Description of a New Subspecies from Nicaragua by Sydney Anderson

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