JAGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jagged mean? 

• JAGGED (adjective)
  The adjective JAGGED has 2 senses:

1. having a sharply uneven surface or outline

2. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

  Familiarity information: JAGGED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a sharply uneven surface or outline

Synonyms:

jagged; jaggy; scraggy

Context example:

scraggy cliffs

Similar:

uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)

Derivation:

jaggedness (something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

Synonyms:

erose; jagged; jaggy; notched; toothed

Similar:

rough (of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped)

Derivation:

jaggedness (something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes protein jagged-2, is involved in the regulation of cell migration, cell proliferation, cell cycle progression and signal transduction.

(JAG2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A jagged scarp, or wall of cliffs, known as Piri Rupes borders the young, nearly crater-free plains of Piri Planitia.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

A jagged stone was lying among the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One in a scarlet cap bent over it, steadying the jagged rock which was balanced on the spoon-shaped end of the long wooden lever.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again came the snuffle and cough, and outlined between two jagged rocks not a score of feet away he made out the gray head of a wolf.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This allele, which encodes protein jagged-1, may play a role in the progression of hematopoiesis.

(JAG1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Strangling, suffocating, sometimes one uppermost and sometimes the other, dragging over the jagged bottom, smashing against rocks and snags, they veered in to the bank.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She started from my side, and ran along a jagged timber which protruded from the place we stood upon, and overhung the deep water at some height, without the least defence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With this as our support, we were soon able to scramble up the jagged wall until we found ourselves upon the small grassy platform, some twenty-five feet each way, which formed the summit.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It began with a thin scratch and ended in a jagged hole.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)