sawtooth

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Etymology

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From saw +‎ tooth.

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Noun

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sawtooth (plural sawteeth)

  1. A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
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sawtooth (plural sawtooths)

  1. A sawtooth wave.
  2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
  3. (cellular automata) A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.

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