interpolate
verb (used with object)
to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
interpolated
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past participleof interpolate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof interpolate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
interpolateverb (used with object)to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
Example Sentences
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Note: Tracks for ships that lose signals are interpolated and may appear over land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
It was “Rapper’s Delight,” which interpolated Chic’s hit “Good Times.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
You can call this thing a memoir — she spoke it, in 1986, to Kurt Loder, who interpolated it as literature.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
Initially sampled by Aaliyah on 1994’s “Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number,” “What You Won’t Do for Love” turned into a foundational sample in hip-hop after Tupac Shakur interpolated it on 1997’s “Do for Love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Its so-called facts are very largely fictions, or so largely interpolated with error, that they cannot be safely used for construction.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
