(countable, UK, dialect, archaic) A thrashing; a beating.
(countable, uncountable) A protective or insulating cover for an object; a jacket.
(countable, uncountable) Material used to make jackets.
verb
present participle of jacket
jackknife
jackknife
noun
(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.
Alternative spelling of jack-knife
jacknifed
jacknives
jacksnipe
jacksnipe
noun
Lymnocryptes minimus, a migratory small stocky wader, the smallest of the snipes.
jailbreak
jailbreak
noun
(computing) A modification to the firmware of an electronic device (typically a mobile phone or tablet) to allow the installation and use of software not officially supported by the device's manufacturer.
verb
(transitive, computing) To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software.
