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Jigsaw (tool) A jigsaw is a saw which uses a reciprocating saw, reciprocating blade to cut irregular curves, such as stenciled designs, in wood, metal, or other materials. Jigsaws first emerged in the 19th century and employed a treadle to operate the blad ...
, a tool used for cutting arbitrary curves *
Jigsaw puzzle A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often irregularly shaped interlocking and mosaiced pieces, each of which typically has a portion of a picture. When assembled, the puzzle pieces produce a complete picture. In th ...
, a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of interlocking pieces


Arts and media


Comics

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Jigsaw (Marvel Comics) Jigsaw (William "Billy" Russo, also known as "The Beaut" before his disfigurement) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Len Wein and artist Ross Andru, the character made his firs ...
, a supervillain and arch-enemy of the Punisher *
Jigsaw (Harvey Comics) Jigsaw was a Joe Simon-created character and two-issue comic series published by Harvey Comics from September to December 1966. Developed for Harvey's short-lived superhero line, Harvey Thriller, Jigsaw was the disconnectable "Man of a Thousand ...
, a Joe Simon-created character and the star of two eponymous series


Film and television

* '' Inside Out'', a computer-animated Pixar film known as "''Jigsaw''" in Russian * ''Jigsaw'' (1949 film), a film noir * ''Jigsaw'' (1962 film), a British crime drama directed by Val Guest * ''Jigsaw'' (1968 film), a film directed by James Goldstone * ''Jigsaw'' (1979 film), a Canadian-French drama film * ''Jigsaw'' (1989 film), a thriller film starring Rebecca Gibney * ''Jigsaw'' (American TV series), a 1970s television show * ''Jigsaw'' (British TV series), a BBC children's TV programme * ''Jigsaw'' (Australian game show), a 1965 Seven Network series * Jigsaw (''Saw'' character), a serial killer in the ''
Saw A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge. It is used to cut through material, very often wood, though sometimes metal or stone. The cut is made by placing the toothed edge against the material and mo ...
'' horror franchise ** ''Jigsaw'' (2017 film), the eighth film in the ''Saw'' franchise


Music

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Jigsaw (Australian band) Jigsaw were an Australian country pop band, composed of Jon Calderwood on lead guitar, Eddie Chappell on drums, Ron Gilbee on rhythm guitar and Dennis Tucker on bass guitar. Over the course of their career, the band released Australian top&nbs ...
, an Australian pop music group *
Jigsaw (British band) Jigsaw was an English pop rock band best known for their 1975 hit "Sky High". The band was fronted by the singer-songwriter duo of Clive Scott and Des Dyer for most of its life. Following Scott's death in 2009, it has been the platform for Dye ...
, a British pop music group * ''Jigsaw'' (Lady Sovereign album), 2009 * "Jigsaw", a song from Marillion's 1984 album ''
Fugazi Fugazi (; ) is an American post-hardcore band that formed in Washington, D.C., in 1986. The band consists of guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally, and drummer Brendan Canty. They are noted for their style-tr ...
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Jigsaw Falling into Place "Jigsaw Falling into Place" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, produced by Nigel Godrich. It was released as the lead single from Radiohead's seventh studio album ''In Rainbows'' (2007) on 14 January 2008. The music video, directed by ...
", a 2007 song by Radiohead commonly abbreviated to "Jigsaw" * ''Jigsaw'' (Shadows album), 1967 * ''Jigsaw'' (Mike Stern album), 1989 * "Jigsaw", a song by Renaissance from the 1981 album '' Camera Camera'' * "Jigsaw", a 2022 song by
Conan Gray Conan Lee Gray (born December 5, 1998) is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Lemon Grove, California and raised in Georgetown, Texas, he began uploading vlogs, Cover version, covers and original songs to YouTube as a teenager. Gray sig ...


Other media

* ''Jigsaw'' (video game), a 1995 text adventure by Graham Nelson *
Jigsaw (website) Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides customer relationship management (CRM) software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, ...
, a website for trading business contacts *
Jigsaw (wrestler) Edward McGuckin (born December 16, 1983) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Jigsaw. He is best known for his work on the independent circuit for promotions such as Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling, Dragon Gate USA, ...
(born 1983), American professional wrestler * ''Jigsaw'' (novel), a 1989 semi-autobiographical novel by Sybille Bedford


Computing

* Jigsaw project, of
Java Platform Module System The Java Platform Module System specifies a distribution format for collections of Java code and associated resources. It also specifies a repository for storing these collections, or ''modules'', and identifies how they can be discovered, loaded a ...
* Jigsaw Download, or short
Jigdo Jigdo (a portmanteau of "Jigsaw" and "download") is a utility typically used for downloading to piece together a large file, most commonly an optical disk image such as a CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD) image, from many smaller individual constit ...
, a tool designed to ease the distribution of very large files over the internet (e.g. CD/DVD images) * Jigsaw (ransomware), an encrypting ransomware


Other uses

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Jigsaw (company) Jigsaw LLC (formerly Google Ideas) is a technology incubator created by Google. , it is under Google management and used to operate as an independent subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Based in New York City, Jigsaw is dedicated to understanding globa ...
, formerly Google Ideas, a technology incubator created by Google *
Jigsaw (teaching technique) The jigsaw technique is a method of organizing classroom activity that makes students dependent on each other to succeed. It breaks classes into groups that each assemble a piece of an assignment and synthesize their work when finished. It was desig ...
, a teaching technique invented by social psychologist Elliot Aronson in 1971 *
Jigsaw (clothing retailer) Jigsaw is a fashion clothing retailer with store and concession partners across Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Australia. The company is based on Mortlake Road in Kew, south west London. The group turned over £102m for the 2017/2018 peri ...
, a women's clothing retailer * Jigsaw Islands, two small islands lying off Antarctica's Palmer Archipelago * Jigsaw, common name of the moth '' Dysgonia torrida''


See also

* Jig (disambiguation) * Saw (disambiguation) {{disambiguation