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extrapolate
[ik-strap-uh-leyt]
verb (used with object)
to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
Statistics., to estimate (the value of a variable) outside the tabulated or observed range.
Mathematics., to estimate (a function that is known over a range of values of its independent variable) to values outside the known range.
verb (used without object)
to perform extrapolation.
extrapolate
/ ɪkˈstræpəˌleɪt /
verb
maths to estimate (a value of a function or measurement) beyond the values already known, by the extension of a curve Compare interpolate
to infer (something not known) by using but not strictly deducing from the known facts
extrapolate
To estimate the value of a quantity that falls outside the range in which its values are known.
Other Word Forms
- extrapolation noun
- extrapolative adjective
- extrapolatory adjective
- extrapolator noun
- overextrapolation noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of extrapolate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of extrapolate1
Example Sentences
Laypersons might be gulled into extrapolating from clothes-folding to genuinely complicated tasks, but that would be a mistake.
Of course, facts are important, but they don’t necessarily reveal anything; it is the biographer’s folly to ascribe deeper meaning to them, to extrapolate truth from a disparate series of events.
Another writer who extrapolated from what he saw of the Los Angeles of his time was Morrow Mayo, whose 1933 book “Los Angeles” is quoted elsewhere in The Times’ Future of L.A. package.
When extrapolated nationwide, it's estimated that more than £2.5m has been lost to ticket scammers.
Opponents estimate it will cost about $1.35 billion, extrapolated from a $4.5-million contract awarded to a Northern California Native American tribe last year to hunt about 1,500 barred owls over four years.
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