extrapolate

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From extra + (inter)polate

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Infinitive
to extrapolate

Third person singular
extrapolates

Simple past
extrapolated

Past participle
extrapolated

Present participle
extrapolating

to extrapolate (third-person singular simple present extrapolates, present participle extrapolating, simple past and past participle extrapolated)

  1. (transitive) To infer by extending known information
  2. (transitive, mathematics) To estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within that range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known ones

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