jigsaw

3 definitions • 2 examples

a picture stuck onto wood or cardboard and cut into pieces of different shapes that must be joined together correctly to form the picture again:

We spent all evening doing a 1,000-piece jigsaw.

a complicated or mysterious problem that can only be solved or explained by connecting several pieces of information:

The police are trying to piece together the jigsaw of how the dead man spent his last hours.

a tool with an electric motor and a thin metal blade that is used for cutting curves in flat materials, such as wood or metal