sawtooth
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːtuːθ/
The English word “sawtooth” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
- 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).
- A sawtooth wave.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
- A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.
- The military barracuda, Sphyraena putnamae.
Etymology
From saw + tooth.
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