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jackknife

noun jackknives

alternative 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.
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.
Similar: leave-one-out

verb jackknifes · jackknifing · jackknifed

alternative Alternative form of jack-knife

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@misc{jackknife_2026,
  title = {jackknife},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jackknife},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}