"jackknife" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: jackknives [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|jackknives}} jackknife (plural jackknives)
  1. Alternative spelling of jack-knife. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: jack-knife
    Sense id: en-jackknife-en-noun-r1PFniPK
  2. (statistics) 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. Synonyms: leave-one-out Translations (statistics): jackknife [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-jackknife-en-noun-4-YEB4nx Categories (other): Statistics, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 59 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 20 55 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 74 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 78 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 21 54 25 Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics Disambiguation of 'statistics': 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: antijackknife

Verb

Forms: jackknifes [present, singular, third-person], jackknifing [participle, present], jackknifed [participle, past], jackknifed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} jackknife (third-person singular simple present jackknifes, present participle jackknifing, simple past and past participle jackknifed)
  1. Alternative form of jack-knife. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: jack-knife
    Sense id: en-jackknife-en-verb-gbfV~WFf

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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