Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tooth of a saw.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An arctic seal (
Lobodon carcinophaga ), having the molars serrated; -- called alsocrab-eating seal .
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- noun A cutting
bit of asaw . - noun
sawtooth wave
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a serration on a saw blade
Etymologies
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Examples
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NATHAN BAKA (ph), KESQ CORRESPONDENT: We're live right here at Yucca Valley High School, the command post for hundreds of firefighters from all over southern California, here to fight a large complex of fires, now called the sawtooth complex of fires.
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If your sawtooth is a later sawtooth based model and supports a power supply of 237watts and you have nothing else in the machine that would take up a lot of the power from the power supply, then you should be ok.
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What makes Mr. Piano's new pavilion just north of the BCAM an obvious relation is the architect's use of fitted slabs of gray travertine for the exterior, a north-facing "sawtooth" roof (like those of old factories) configured to capture variably filtered daylight, and his attempt to jazz things up by painting attached structures a bright scarlet - orange, popularly called "Renzo red."
Nice Wing, Pity About the Art David Littlejohn 2010
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A graph of atmospheric carbon shows a clear "sawtooth" pattern with an annual cycle.
The NYT is trying to take away our toilet paper! Ann Althouse 2009
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The "sawtooth" metaphor occurs also in Spanish, since Sierra Nevada in Spanish means "Snowcovered Saw."
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"sawtooth" dock, where commercial vessels tie up for servicing.
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"sawtooth" dock, where commercial vessels tie up for servicing.
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"sawtooth" dock, where commercial vessels tie up for servicing.
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"sawtooth" dock, where commercial vessels tie up for servicing.
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"sawtooth" dock, where commercial vessels tie up for servicing.
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