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

Seek for it, in serration, or in sweeping curves?

From The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by Ruskin, John

On three sides, the unbroken serration of the Empire City's beehives stretched in a semicircle of twenty miles radius.

From Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various

The stars had enkindled in luminous courses Their slow-sliding lamps, when, remounting their horses, The riders retraversed that mighty serration Of rock-work.

From Lucile by Meredith, Owen