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Jackknife vs Pocketknife - What's the difference?

jackknife | pocketknife |

As nouns the difference between jackknife and pocketknife

is that jackknife is while pocketknife is a small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle, and thereby be safely stowed in one’s pocket.

As a verb jackknife

is .

jackknife

English

Noun

(jackknives)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (statistics) leave-one-out

    See also

    *

    Verb

    • pocketknife

    English

    Noun

    (pocketknives)
  • A small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle, and thereby be safely stowed in one’s pocket.

    • Synonyms

    * penknife

    See also

    * (wikipedia "pocketknife") English nouns with irregular plurals