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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 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 Anderson, Sydney

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

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

Calm 25 8 p.m. brought up in Aguada Roads 30�00 82 80 82 81 16.09 N 73.21 E — 85 NNW to NNE 1 to 3 26 To Goa in steam launch.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)

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