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sawtooth

noun
/ˈsɔːtuːθ/

Etymology

From saw + tooth.

  1. inherited from *h₃dónts✻
  2. inherited from *tanþs✻
  3. inherited from *tanþ✻
  4. inherited from tōþ
  5. inherited from tothe
  6. compounded as sawtooth — “saw + tooth”

Definitions

  1. A tooth of a saw

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

    • Holonyms: sawblade < saw

  2. Something else that is shaped like such a tooth (for example, a roof or each peaked…

    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).

  3. A sawtooth wave.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

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

    2. A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before…

      A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.

    3. The military barracuda, Sphyraena putnamae.

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Derived

sawtooth coriander, sawtooth goldenweed, sawtoothlike, Sawtooth Mountains, Sawtooth Range, Sawtooth Ridge, sawtooth roof, Sawtooths, sawtooth wave, sawtooth eel

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sawtooth. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sawtooth. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at sawtooth

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA