jackknife
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Definitions ofjackknife
- A compact folding knife.
Example: "He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks."
- The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.
Example: "It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife"
- 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."
- To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.
Example: "The cat jackknifed in the air and landed gracefully on its feet."
- To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.
Example: "Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck."
- 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.
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