A zigzag is a pattern made up of many small corners at an acute angle, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular. A pattern is a form, template, or model (or, more abstractly, a set of rules) which can be used to make or to generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are generated have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred or discerned... This article is about angles in geometry. ... Parallel Lines is a seminal New Wave album by the art punk band Blondie, released in September of 1978 (see 1978 in music). ...

From the point of view of symmetry, a regular zigzag can be generated from a simple motif like a line segment by repeated application of a glide reflection: Square with symmetry group D4 Symmetry is a characteristic of geometrical shapes, equations, and other objects; we say that such an object is symmetric with respect to a given operation if this operation, when applied to the object, does not appear to change it. ... In mathematics, a line segment is a part of a line that is bounded by two end points. ... Example of a glide reflection In geometry, a glide reflection is a type of isometry of the Euclidean plane. ...

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Equally it is the juxtaposition of chevrons. This page is about the pattern or symbol called a chevron. ...

A car, for example, could move in a zigzag, that is, not going straight, but instead moving left and right and left and so on. The trace of a triangle wave or a sawtooth wave could be described as a zigzag. Pinking shears are designed to cut cloth with a zigzag edge, to lessen fraying. Zigzags are a basic decorative pattern used on pottery. A triangle wave is a waveform named for its triangular shape. ... The sawtooth wave (or saw wave) is a kind of basic non-sinusoidal waveform. ... Pinking shears are scissors whose blades are sawtooth instead of straight. ... A man shapes pottery as it turns on a wheel. ...

ZigZag - also the name of the first cutting-edge UK rock music magazine. Started in 1969 by Peter Frame (later famous for his innovatory 'rock trees' tracing changing personnel line-ups in the rock music world) the magazine continued to be published in London through the 1970s.

See also

• Zig Zag (railway)