sawtooth
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noun
2.
any of the small parallel roof structures forming a sawtooth roof.
adjective
3.
having a zigzag profile, similar to that of the cutting edge of a saw; sawtoothed; serrate: a sawtooth mountain range.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | (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 |
| 2. | having or generating such a waveform |
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Sawtooth
is always a great word to know.
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example sentences
Sawtooth oak seedlings do not do well in poorly drained soils or in areas subject to flooding.
It seems that economic choices and policies follow a sort of sawtooth trajectory.
Such stuff is a fitting complement to those little pieces of green sawtooth plastic used in presentation in many sushi places.
The bottomless sky, the mountains' clutches of snow, the horizon's never-ending sawtooth of coniferous trees.
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