Something that has short turns or angles.

Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.

To form with short turns.

To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. (From _zed_, _z_, and _jag_, an Icelandic word of unknown meaning.) He zedjagged so uncomen wyde Thet non coude pas on eyder syde; So, to com saufly thruh, I been Constreynet for to doodge betwene. Munwele

To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.

Zigzag is a multi-dimensional data organizing system by Ted Nelson, the creator of the "hypertext" concept and the Xanadu project. Things are organized into cells like a spreadsheet, but without the rigid two-dimensional structure. Zigzag is currently implemented in Perl and distributed as shareware for $

See Boyau.

travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside"

in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; "birds flew zigzag across the blue sky"

A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.

a corrective wave that has the greatest price change whilst a flat correction is more of a sideways motion