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Calculate vs Extrapolate - What's the difference?

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In transitive mathematics terms the difference between calculate and extrapolate

is that calculate is to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process while extrapolate is to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within that range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known ones.

calculate

English

Verb

(calculat)
  • (mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
  • (mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
  • (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
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  • To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • A cunning man did calculate my birth.
  • To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
  • * Archbishop Tillotson
  • [Religion] is calculated for our benefit.

    Synonyms

    * (determine value of or solution to) compute, reckon (old), work out * (determine values or solutions) compute, reckon (old)

    Derived terms

    * calculating

    extrapolate

    English

    Verb

    (extrapolat)
  • To infer by extending known information.
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  • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • (mathematics) To estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within that range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known ones
  • Antonyms

    * (mathematics) interpolate