sawtooth

See also: saw tooth and saw-tooth

English

Alternative forms

• saw tooth

Etymology

From saw +‎ tooth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːtuːθ/

Noun

sawtooth (plural sawteeth)

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

Related terms

• sawback
• saw-tooth
• sawtoothed
• saw-toothed

 

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• sawtooth eel

 

Translations

cutting bit of a saw

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鋸齒／锯齿 (goe³ ci²)

  Mandarin: 鋸齒／锯齿 (zh) (jùchǐ)

• Dutch: zaagtand (nl) m
• Faroese: sagtonn f, sagartonn f
• Finnish: sahanhammas
• French: dent de scie m
• German: Sägezahn (de) m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: のこぎり歯 (のこぎりは, nokogiri ha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sagtann m or f

  Nynorsk: sagtann f

• Russian: зуб пилы́ m (zub pilý)
• Swedish: sågtand (sv) c
• Turkish: diş (tr)

sawtooth wave — see sawtooth wave