sawtooth wave meaning
ENWSawtooth wave
- The sawtooth wave (or saw wave) is a kind of non-sinusoidal waveform. It is so named based on its resemblance to the teeth of a saw.
- The convention is that a sawtooth wave ramps upward and then sharply drops. However, in a "reverse (or inverse) sawtooth wave", the wave ramps downward and then sharply rises. It can also be considered the extreme case of an asymmetric triangle wave.
- The piecewise linear function
- based on the floor function of time t is an example of a sawtooth wave with period 1.
- A more general form, in the range −1 to 1, and with period a, is
- NounPLsawtooth waves
- (mathematics, engineering) A function or waveform that repeatedly ramps upwards (usually linearly) and then sharply drops.
- (mathematics, engineering) A function or waveform that repeatedly ramps upwards (usually linearly) and then sharply drops.
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