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sawtooth.

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

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

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

  2. 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).

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Where this word comes from

From saw + tooth.

noun/ˈsɔːtuːθ/
  1. A sawtooth wave.

  2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.

  3. A 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.

Where this word comes from

From saw + tooth.

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