ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sawtooth

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈsɔːtuːθ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Sawtooth is a noun meaning A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.

Meaning

A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.

More Meanings

  1. A sawtooth wave.
  2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
  3. The military barracuda, Sphyraena putnamae.
  4. (often attributive) 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).
  5. (cellular automata) A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.

Example Sentences

Holonyms: sawblade < saw

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include saw tooth, sawblade, tooth, serrature, kerf, bandsaw.

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