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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
- extrapolator noun
- extrapolative adjective
- extrapolation noun
- extrapolatory adjective
- overextrapolation noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of extrapolate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of extrapolate1
Example Sentences
Where “I Think You Should Leave” operates like a jukebox, “The Chair Company” is a concept album extrapolating a single sight gag into a swirl of lunacy on par with an extended free jazz performance.
Private-equity company Carlyle Group, extrapolating from companies in which it owns stakes, said Tuesday that it thinks overall U.S. jobs growth slid in September from an already weak official reading in August.
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.
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