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jackknife

noun

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L322775 on Wikidata ↗

verb

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L332058 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of jack-knife.

    […] near it is a cluster of weapons of villanous aspect, comprising every thing from a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife or a Smith & Wesson revolver.

  2. 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.

verb

  1. Alternative form of jack-knife.