sawtooth

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/ˈsɔːtuːθ/

noun

A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.

“Holonyms: sawblade < saw”

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Meanings

nounsawtooth (plural sawteeth)

plural sawteeth · alternative saw tooth

  1. A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.

    Holonyms: sawblade < saw

  2. attributiveoftenSomething else that is shaped like such a tooth (for example, a roof or each peaked portion thereof; a curve or waveform on a graph).
nounsawtooth (plural sawtooths)

plural sawtooths · alternative saw tooth

  1. A sawtooth wave.
  2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
  3. cellular automataA 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.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
tooth

Origin

From saw + tooth.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 鋸齒 /锯齿
  • 鋸齒 /锯齿 (goe³ ci²)cutting bit of a saw
Chinese Mandarin 鋸齒 /锯齿
  • 鋸齒 /锯齿 (jùchǐ)cutting bit of a saw
Dutch zaagtand
  • zaagtandcutting bit of a saw
Finnish sahanhammas
  • sahanhammascutting bit of a saw
French dent de scie
  • dent de sciecutting bit of a saw
German Sägezahn
  • Sägezahncutting bit of a saw
Japanese のこぎり歯
  • のこぎり歯 (nokogiri ha)cutting bit of a saw
Norwegian Bokmål sagtann
  • sagtanncutting bit of a saw
Polish ząb piły
  • ząb piłycutting bit of a saw
Russian зуб пилы́
  • зуб пилы́ (zub pilý)cutting bit of a saw
Swedish sågtand
  • sågtandcutting bit of a saw
Turkish diş
  • dişcutting bit of a saw
Cite this entry
APA

sawtooth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sawtooth

MLA

“sawtooth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sawtooth. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sawtooth,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sawtooth.

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