- sawtooth⇄adj. having or resembling sawteeth; sawtoothed; serrate.
Ex. sawtooth waves. They found that during a dream the eyeballs move rapidly and brain waves take on a sawtooth pattern quite different from the long, rolling waves of dreamless sleep (Scien - sawtooth⇄noun 1. a tooth of a saw.
2. a notched tooth of an animal or machine.
Ex. a snake's sawteeth.
3. (Figurative.) anything shaped like the tooth of a saw.
Ex. dazzling sawtooths of rock and ice (Manchester Guardian Weekly). - sawtooth⇄sawtooth, noun, pl.-teethor-tooths,adjective.