extrapolate
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Etymology [edit]
From extra + (inter)polate
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extrapolate (third-person singular simple present extrapolates, present participle extrapolating, simple past and past participle extrapolated)
- (transitive) To infer by extending known information.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- (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
Antonyms [edit]
- (mathematics): interpolate
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Translations [edit]
to infer by extending known information
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to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
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