Word: jackknifed
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: jack
knifed
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle 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: -d
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants.