Word: jackknifes
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: jack
knifes
Definition: Third-person singular of jackknife; dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife
Morphemes:
Affix: jackknife
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: 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.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -es
Language: enm
Decoded: -es
Meaning: third person singular ending of verbs