sawtooth

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈsɔːtuːθ/

Definition of sawtooth

6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
    “Holonyms: sawblade < saw”
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noun

  1. A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
    “Holonyms: sawblade < saw”
  2. (attributive, often)Something else that is shaped like such a tooth (for example, a roof or each peaked portion thereof; a curve or waveform on a graph).
  3. A sawtooth wave.
  4. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
  5. A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.
  6. The military barracuda, Sphyraena putnamae.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From saw + tooth.

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