Jackknives

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:30 ptsWWF:35 pts10 letters

Definition of Jackknives

noun

A compact folding knife.
"He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks."
The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.
"It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife"
A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.
"I have seen several jack-knives along that dangerous stretch of road."

noun

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.

Anagrams of Jackknives

Words You Can Make

50 words can be made from the letters in "jackknives":

7-LETTER WORDS

6-LETTER WORDS

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5-LETTER WORDS

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Related Word Patterns

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Synonyms & Antonyms

SYNONYMS

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Rhyming Words

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