North By West

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
NBW
Pronunciation
/nɔrθ baɪ wɛst/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. The tropical cyclone whose horizontal scale is smaller ( larger ) moves toward the northwest by north ( the northwest by west ).
  2. The campus is located at Robina on the Gold Coast, Queensland, bounded by Lake Orr to the east and north and by Varsity Lakes to the south and west.
  3. Spain is bound to the east by Mediterranean Sea ( containing the Balearic Islands ), to the north by the Bay of Biscay and to its west by the Atlantic Ocean.
  4. The results show that the summer precipitation of North China is greatly effected by the mountain over west and north parts of North China, especially over some part of it.
  5. The coal bearing strata in Huainan area is situated in the south-east portion of the North China platform, a synclinorium with northwest by west.

Other meanings of NBW