jackknife

Meaning of jackknife

noun
  1. A compact folding knife.
    He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.
  2. The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.
    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.
    I have seen several jack-knives along that dangerous stretch of road.
verb
  1. To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.
    The cat jackknifed in the air and landed gracefully on its feet.
  2. To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.
    Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck.

noun

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.

Information about jackknife

  • The plural form of jackknife is: jackknifes.
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Hyphenation of jackknife

jack-knife

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • jackknife is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with jackknife

nife, CyberKnife, Yellowknife, drawknife, knife, paperknife, penknife, pocketknife, swingknife, yellowknife

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