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Rarejackknives
The correct spelling is jackknives.
How to pronounce jackknives
noun
Say it like: Jak-kni-ves
The correct spelling is jackknives. A compact folding knife. For example: "He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks."
Usage Examples
“He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.”
“It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife”
“I have seen several jack-knives along that dangerous stretch of road.”
Definition
noun
- 1.A compact folding knife.
- 2.The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.
- 3.A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.
- 4.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.
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