interpolate

English

Etymology

From Latin interpolare, Latin interpolatum, from inter (“between”) and polire (“to polish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.ˈtɜɹ.pə.ˌleɪt/
• Homophone: interpellate (some pronunciations)

Verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert (possibly spurious) words into a text.

   in verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated

2. (mathematics) To estimate the value of a function between two points between which it is tabulated.
3. (computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.
   • Joseph F. Ossanna, Nroff/Troff User's manual

     A macro is invoked in the same way as a request; a control line beginning .xx will interpolate the contents of macro xx.

   • Wall, Christiansen, and Orwant, Programming Perl, 3rd Edition, 2000, p. 992.

     In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a LIST.

Synonyms

• (process fetched data in-line): transclude

Related terms

• extrapolate
• interpolation

Translations

to introduce something, such as words, between other things, such as other words

• Bulgarian: вмъквам (bg) (vmǎkvam)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} interpolō
• Russian: интерполировать (ru) (interpolirovatʹ)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} interpolar (es)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} interpolera (sv)

to estimate the value of a function

• Bulgarian: интерполирам (bg) (interpoliram)
• Catalan: interpolar (ca)
• Czech: interpolovat
• Finnish: interpoloida
• French: interpoler (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: interpolieren (de)
• Russian: интерполи́ровать (ru) (interpolírovatʹ)
• Spanish: interpolar (es)
• Tagalog: isalingit

to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Italian

Verb

interpolate

1. second-person plural present indicative of interpolare
2. second-person plural imperative of interpolare
3. feminine plural of interpolato

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) interpolāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of interpolō