sawtooth

IPA: sɔtuθ

A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
A sawtooth wave.
Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
(cellular automata) A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.

Examples of "sawtooth" in Sentences

"sawtooth" dock, where commercial vessels tie up for servicing.
A graph of atmospheric carbon shows a clear "sawtooth" pattern with an annual cycle.
The "sawtooth" metaphor occurs also in Spanish, since Sierra Nevada in Spanish means "Snowcovered Saw."
If your sawtooth is a later sawtooth based model and supports a power supply of 237watts and you have nothing else in the machine that would take up a lot of the power from the power supply, then you should be ok.
NATHAN BAKA (ph), KESQ CORRESPONDENT: We're live right here at Yucca Valley High School, the command post for hundreds of firefighters from all over southern California, here to fight a large complex of fires, now called the sawtooth complex of fires.
What makes Mr. Piano's new pavilion just north of the BCAM an obvious relation is the architect's use of fitted slabs of gray travertine for the exterior, a north-facing "sawtooth" roof (like those of old factories) configured to capture variably filtered daylight, and his attempt to jazz things up by painting attached structures a bright scarlet - orange, popularly called "Renzo red."