serrationn.
/sɛˈreɪʃən/ 1. Surgery. The operation of sawing. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
2. The condition of being serrated; indentation like that of a saw; chiefly concrete and plural, saw-like indentations, the teeth of a serrated edge or surface.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > [noun] > fine indentation of edge or serration
serrature?1541
toothing1611
denticulation1681
pectination1800
serration1842
dentilation1846
dentation1852
serra1866
1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 101 The serrations are found to result from a structure resembling a series of inverted cones, encircling a central stem.
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 38 The comb..is low, thick, destitute of serrations.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xiii. 147 The eye which has once been habituated to the continual serration of the pine forest.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 122 Differing in pubescence and amount of double serration of the leaflets.
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada vii. 141 Dim serrations of Coast Range loom indistinctly on the hazy air.
1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 123 As the saw refused..to ‘bite’, and he had to withdraw it to feel, with his tongue, if the serration was still perfect.
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n.1706