sawtooth

Example Sentences

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Water moving over its tiny wings directs the glider’s movement, giving it what is described as a peculiar “sawtooth path.”

From Scientific American

You can make a sawtooth function with a peak or valley at every integer, for example.

From Scientific American

The researchers established this by forcing ants to take an outward foraging trip on a long ‘roller coaster’: a sawtooth track across the desert.

From Nature

For a more refined, elegant feel, she added a sawtooth edge to the fabric.

From New York Times

It crosses blank deserts, sawtooth mountains and jagged canyons.

From Washington Post