linear extrapolation

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Statistics, Mathematics. extrapolation using a linear equation to estimate the value of a variable or function outside the tabulated or observed range.

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Origin of linear extrapolation

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby linear extrapolation

linear collider, linear combination, linear dependence, linear differential equation, linear equation, linear extrapolation, linear fracture, linear function, linear independence, linear induction motor, linearity

How to use linear extrapolation in a sentence

Lepore has a different, though still linear, metaphor for the history of feminism: “a river, wending.”
Wonder Woman’s Creation Story Is Wilder Than You Could Ever Imagine|Tom Arnold-Forster|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style.
Nigeria’s Larger-Than-Life Nobel Laureate Chronicles a Fascinating Life|Chimamanda Adichie|August 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the reasoning only made sense if the tumor grew in a linear, predictable way.
How Big Pharma Holds Back in the War on Cancer|ProPublica|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In his own words it was “the linear equivalent of the sensation of flight.”
Matisse: Innovator Until the End|Nico Hines|April 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I call them Hyperserials: shows with a purer, more intense focus on one linear, series-long plotline.
Mad Men’s Dramatic Déjà Vu: ‘Time Zones’ Feels Redundant|Andrew Romano|April 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The child now aims at constructing a particular linear representation, that of a man, a horse, or what not.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Curious differences appear in respect of the completeness of this linear noting or enumerating of features.
Children's Ways|James Sully
This habit of scribble may persist after a child attempts a linear description of the parts of an object.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Now the series treated of in the text agrees with this linear progression in nothing whatever but in being a progression.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
She says 'fifteen hundred feet'; the law says she ought t' read 'fifteen hundred linear feet.'
Blazed Trail Stories|Stewart Edward White