sawtooth en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɔːtuːθ/
Etymology
From saw + tooth.
Meanings
-
A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
Holonyms: sawblade < saw
- A sawtooth wave.
- (attributive, often) 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).
- 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| saw tooth | alternative | lexicographic | |
| sawtooths | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| sawteeth | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
sawtooth coriander · Sawtooth Ridge · sawtoothlike · Sawtooth Range · sawtooth eel · Sawtooth Mountains · sawtooth kerb · sawtooth roof · Sawtooths · sawtooth wave · sawtooth goldenweed
Relateds
sawtoothed · sawback · saw-tooth · saw-toothed
Translations (14)
fo sagartonn (cutting bit of a saw) · ja のこぎり歯 (cutting bit of a saw) · cmn 鋸齒 /锯齿 (cutting bit of a saw) · tr diş (cutting bit of a saw) · de Sägezahn (cutting bit of a saw) · nl zaagtand (cutting bit of a saw) · yue 鋸齒 /锯齿 (cutting bit of a saw) · fo sagtonn (cutting bit of a saw) · sv sågtand (cutting bit of a saw) · fi sahanhammas (cutting bit of a saw) · ru зуб пилы́ (cutting bit of a saw) · fr dent de scie (cutting bit of a saw) · nb sagtann (cutting bit of a saw) · nn sagtann (cutting bit of a saw)