Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
JACKKNIFE
jackknife
(noun) a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out
jackknife
(verb) dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
jackknife (plural jackknives)
Alternative spelling of jack-knife
(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
Verb
jackknife (third-person singular simple present jackknifes, present participle jackknifing, simple past and past participle jackknifed)
Alternative spelling of jack-knife
Source: Wiktionary
Jack"knife`, n.
Definition: A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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