English Explanatory Dictionary

sawtooth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
  2. 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).
noun
  1. A sawtooth wave.
  2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
  3. A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.
  4. The military barracuda, Sphyraena putnamae.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɔːtuːθ/

Word forms

sawtooth sawteeth saw tooth sawtooths

Etymology

From saw + tooth.

Related words

sawback saw-tooth sawtoothed saw-toothed

Derived words

sawtooth coriander sawtooth goldenweed sawtoothlike Sawtooth Mountains Sawtooth Range Sawtooth Ridge sawtooth roof Sawtooths sawtooth wave sawtooth eel
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