sawtooth

About 0.31 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

saw tooth saw set sawblade saw file tooth crown saw serrature jig saw kerf bandsaw

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