jackknives in English
noun
1
a knife with a folding blade.
Adam had chosen a jackknife rather than a fixed blade.
2
a dive in which the body is first bent at the waist and then straightened.
But still, I usually like to lounge about in a chaise lounge or something while everyone else is doing cannonballs and jackknives and freakish flips off the diving board.
3
a method of assessing the variability of data by repeating a calculation on the sets of data obtained by removing one value from the complete set.
To evaluate clade support, bootstrap and jackknife analyses were performed in PAUP * using a full heuristic search with 1000 replicates, simple addition sequence, and TBR branch-swapping.
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1. As a child, I was interested in the story because the train cars were filled with toy animals, toy clowns, jackknives, puzzles, and books as well as delicious things to eat.