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Meanings of jaggy in English

Russian
пила
Spanish
dentado
Wikidata

Jagged effect produced by naive upscaling of raster shapes with few pixels defining a curve.

пила

Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed.

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Examples for "jagged"
Examples for "jagged"
1
Without volition, her gaze dropped to the sea and the jagged rocks.
The spurned viscountess
2
Large knives with jagged blades and notched handles; they don't need plates.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
3
In fact, the jagged mass of ruin was literally suspended in midair.
The House on the Borderland
4
A line of jagged and barren mountains rose far in the distance.
The Scorch Trials
5
Mountains rose in jagged peaks ahead, unspooling toward them with shocking speed.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
1
South Australia has notched more than a week without any new cases.
News.com.au
2
Wennberg notched his second point of the night with the secondary assist.
Reuters
3
Western region storage also notched a new benchmark, climbing to 540 bcf.
Reuters
4
Niskanen notched his first goal of the season at the right time.
Reuters
5
Large knives with jagged blades and notched handles; they don't need plates.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
1
Those gap-toothed shopping parades, emptiest in the poorest places, sap public confidence.
The Guardian
2
Folding Secrets 1 The saber-toothed tiger expands according to its natural movement.
Wired
3
Is all right, everything.' His thick beard split into a broken-toothed smile.
Roma Victrix
4
I wasn't even sure why I was asking for the saber-toothed tiger.
Here's the deal: don't touch me
5
I figure one of his parents must have been a saber-toothed tiger.
Summer knight

Having a sharply uneven surface or outline.

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Usage of jaggy in English
1
He led the way into the goosehouse, hopping over the jaggy ground.
Never let me go
2
It came off wonderfully well, though rather jaggy.
Us and the Bottle Man
3
So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.
Peter Pan
4
No, it's not the jaggy lines around the edges of the camera -that comes from the product page.
Wired
5
It should at least have said that he directed Easy Rider, the film whose jaggy trippiness mocked Hollywood's squareness in 1969.
The Guardian
6
The picture is crisp (especially on the new screen), sound is great, and there are no jaggy compression artifacts in the video.
Wired
7
I anticipated color wash-out and distracting graphical jaggies, but I found none.
Wired
8
I honestly don't know, but I certainly hope so for poor Jaggy's sake.
News.com.au
9
Only when you hit "done" do you see the proper results -up until then all diagonal lines have aliased jaggies, for example.
Wired