Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having jags; jagged or serrated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Set with jags or teeth; denticulated; notched; jagged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
jagged ,toothed orserrated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
- adjective having a sharply uneven surface or outline
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Examples
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:) Note: The scene taken from the One Of Us video isn't * mean't* to be 'jaggy' - for some reason that's just how it turned out.
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The latter, that couchant elephant with its head turned to the north-east, seems as if it wished to bar the pass with its trunk; by its trunk I mean a kind of jaggy ridge which descends down to the road.
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Zooming out to see as much of the page as possible isn't quite as pretty; in its current incarnation, the browser seems to be using a pretty awful scaling algorithm, and small text looks like a jumble of jaggy, meaningless blocks without a hint of anti-aliasing.
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Zooming out to see as much of the page as possible isn't quite as pretty; in its current incarnation, the browser seems to be using a pretty awful scaling algorithm, and small text looks like a jumble of jaggy, meaningless blocks without a hint of anti-aliasing.
Engadget 2010
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Zooming out to see as much of the page as possible isn't quite as pretty; in its current incarnation, the browser seems to be using a pretty awful scaling algorithm, and small text looks like a jumble of jaggy, meaningless blocks without a hint of anti-aliasing.
Engadget Mobile 2010
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If you have a 3D video card this significantly speeds up photo viewing and transition effects for smoother resizing and zooming, with additional smoothing for less "jaggy" images at high magnifications.
VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅 2010
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The filters -- which can be changed at any time -- start extremely "jaggy" in the classic mode, but get progressively softer on the eyes from crisp to smooth.
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The filters -- which can be changed at any time -- start extremely "jaggy" in the classic mode, but get progressively softer on the eyes from crisp to smooth.
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:) Note: The scene taken from the One Of Us video isn't * mean't* to be 'jaggy'
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As expected for a standard def image on an HD TV, there was some jaggy artifacting of vertical lines such as an image of books in a bookshelf, but overall the quality was good.
Jonathan Handel: Two Lenses are Better than One - Twin Video review Jonathan Handel 2011
bilby commented on the word jaggy
Scots - prickly; pointed.
December 26, 2007
bilby commented on the word jaggy
The examples suggest techs use it in relation to low-resolution images.
August 24, 2022