serration

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The initial singles, “Ch-Ching” and “Romeo,” have lush synth orchestration and hum-along hooks; the greatest appeal rests in the singer Caroline Polachek’s jazz-inflected vocals, which fascinate in their agile leaps and slightly mechanical serration.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2016

The mood was jittery, and their laughter had the frantic serration that came with near disaster.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Arethusan.—Represented by the alisma 52 It ought to have been noticed that the character of serration, within reserved limits, is essential to an Apolline leaf, and absolutely refused by an Arethusan one.

From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

I cannot tell why so called—its small and rounded leaves having nothing like oak leaves about them, except the serration, which is common to half, at least, of all leaves that grow.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

Yellow Birch.—Bark yellow, separable into thin layers; leaves dull green above; serration coarser and more decidedly doubly serrate; fruiting catkins ovoid or oblong-ovoid; flavor of bark less distinctly aromatic.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low