sawtooth
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Synonyms: saw tooth, saw-tooth, gagtooth, mantooth, jaw tooth, sawteeth
Antonyms: saw tooth, saw-tooth, gagtooth, mantooth, jaw tooth, sawteeth
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Noun
- A [[tooth]] of a [[saw#English:_Q125356|saw]]: any of its [[series]] of [[projection]]s, each with a [[cutting]] [[edge]].
- {{lb|en|often|attributive<!--often attributive but sometimes substantive-->}} 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).
Noun
- A [[sawtooth wave]].
- Any of various [[pierid]] [[butterfly|butterflies]] of the [[genus]] {{taxlink|Prioneris|genus}}.
- {{lb|en|cellular automata}} A [[pattern]] whose [[living]] [[cell]] [[population]] [[reach]]es [[new]] [[peak]]s [[infinitely]] many times before [[drop]]ping to a [[fixed]] [[value]] after each peak.
- The {{vern|military barracuda}}, {{taxlink|Sphyraena putnamae|species|wplink=0}}.
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