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Meaning of jackknives

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

jackknives

noun

Definitions

  1. A compact folding knife.

    Example: He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.

  2. The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.

    Example: It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife

  3. A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.

    Example: I have seen several jack-knives along that dangerous stretch of road.

noun

Definitions

  1. A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.