sawtooth
pronunciation
How to pronounce sawtooth in British English:
UK ['sɔːtuːθ]
How to pronounce sawtooth in American English:
US [ 'sɔ,tʊθ]
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- Noun:
- a serration on a saw blade
Word Origin
- sawtooth (n.)
- c. 1600, from saw (n.1) + tooth.
Example
- 1. So he flies in three times a month , over the sawtooth mountains , to see patients .
- 2. But china 's sawtooth markets are more jagged than those in the west .
- 3. Kin hung fung , an mit postdoc and co-author of the nano letters paper , says , " what we have done is to design a multilayer sawtooth structure that can absorb a wide range of frequencies " with an efficiency of more than 95 percent .
- 4. Stars of the discovery channel documentary " living with wolves , " the dutchers spent six years with a wolf pack in an enclosed wilderness habitat within idaho 's sawtooth mountains .