sawtooth
any of the small parallel roof structures forming a sawtooth roof.
having a zigzag profile, similar to that of the cutting edge of a saw; sawtoothed; serrate: a sawtooth mountain range.
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How to use sawtooth in a sentence
Because plants take up CO2 as they grow in spring and summer and release it as they decompose in fall and winter, CO2 concentrations rose and fell each year in a sawtooth pattern.
How did we get here? The roots and impacts of the climate crisis | Alexandra Witze | March 10, 2022 | Science NewsThere are banksia bushes with their sawtooth-edge leaves and dried seed cones like multiple jabbering mouths.
Robert Hughes: A Fierce Critic and Powerful Voice Now Silenced | Simon Schama | August 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI had struck the trail of a single deer that was going down a short sawtooth point or a short spur of the main ridge.
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper | Eldred Nathaniel WoodcockThe next day Jack sawtooth showed up, tired out, fresh from the wilderness.
The Rogue Elephant | Elliott WhitneyThere were many such, for the sawtooth, powerful and stern against outlawry, tolerated no pilfering from their thousands.
The Quirt | B.M. Bower
British Dictionary definitions for sawtooth
/ (ˈsɔːˌtuːθ) /
(of a waveform) having an amplitude that varies linearly with time between two values, the interval in one direction often being much greater than the other
having or generating such a waveform
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