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

The abnormal as well as the open part of the coronal suture on this side shows a simpler serration than the corresponding sutures on the left side.

From A Bilateral Division of the Parietal Bone in a Chimpanzee; with a Special Reference to the Oblique Sutures in the Parietal by Hrdlička, Aleš

Note.—In the European mountain ash, P. aucuparia, the leaves have a blunter apex than is usually found in either of the American species, and have a more decided tendency to double serration.

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

The abnormal suture shows but little serration, and the articulation of the two divisions of the parietal bone is squamous in character, the lower portion overlapping the upper.

From A Bilateral Division of the Parietal Bone in a Chimpanzee; with a Special Reference to the Oblique Sutures in the Parietal by Hrdlička, Aleš