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Definition of Jackknife
1. Verb. Dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife.
2. Noun. A large knife with one or more folding blades.
3. Noun. A dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out.
Definition of Jackknife
1. n. A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.
Definition of Jackknife
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of jack-knife) ¹
2. Noun. (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. ¹
3. Verb. (alternative spelling of jack-knife) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jackknife
1. [v -KNIFED, -KNIFING, -KNIFES] / [n -KNIVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackknife
Literary usage of Jackknife
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Women's Health and Aging Study: Health and Social Characteristics of ...edited by Jack M. Guralnik, Linda P. Fried, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Judith D. Kasper, Mary E. Lafferty edited by Jack M. Guralnik, Linda P. Fried, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Judith D. Kasper, Mary E. Lafferty (1996)
"Under jackknife replication, a specified number of systematic subsamples were
generated from the full sample, and these in turn were used to define a series ..."
2. Stochastic Inequalities by Moshe Shaked, Yung Liang Tong (1992)
"Introduction The jackknife estimate of variance (Quenouille (1949, 1956),
Tukey (1958)) can be described as follows. Given a symmetric function h of iid ..."
3. PISA 2003 Data Analysis Manual: SAS Users by OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service) (2005)
"The jackknife method for an unstratified two-stage sample consists of generating
ten replicates of nine schools. Each school is removed only once, ..."
4. Everyday Arithmetic by Franklin Sherman Hoyt, Harriet E. Peet (1920)
"jackknife Construction [Use pencil only when needed.] 1. This pencil sharpener
is made of a -—5.2."—~~—2f ^—. thin strip of wood upon which is glued tia ..."
5. Analysis of Censored Data: Proceedings of the Workshop on Analysis of by Hira L. Koul, J. V. Deshpande (1995)
"This may be one of the reasons why the jackknife under random censorship has ...
Gaver and Miller (1983) proved that the jackknife corrected Kaplan-Meier ..."
6. How to Swim by Annette Kellermann (1918)
"The "jackknife" dive is so called from the fact that in the second position the
diver is literally closed up like a jackknife. Imagine a man suspended in ..."
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