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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 San Juan, 2,200 M.; 52178, 52185, 52187-52192, 52197, 52198, 52203, 52213-52215, from Tanc�taro at elevations of 6,000 to 10,000 ft.

From An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoac?n, M?xico by Bernardo Villa R.

NNW Navajoa in a sparse grassway, 20 feet wide, bordering an open sewer, which coursed northward into the R�o Mayo.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

He also fell in with a very dangerous and extensive shoal, lying NNW about 40 leagues from Sandy Cape, upon the coast of New South Wales.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 by Collins, David