jagged
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: jă'gĭd, IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡɪd/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡəd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æɡɪd
Adjective
[edit]jagged (comparative more jagged, superlative most jagged)
- Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.
- Synonyms: serrated; see also Thesaurus:notched
- 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
- At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
- Having a rough quality.
- Synonyms: scraggy; see also Thesaurus:rough
- (computing) Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.
- Synonym: ragged
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut
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having a rough quality
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Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- AHD: jăgd, IPA(key): /d͡ʒæɡd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æɡd
Verb
[edit]jagged
- simple past and past participle of jag
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