Displace vs Extrapolate - What's the difference?
displace | extrapolate |
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
(of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
To infer by extending known information.
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(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
As verbs the difference between displace and extrapolate
is that displace is to move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland while extrapolate is to infer by extending known information.displace
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(displac)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)extrapolate
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(extrapolat)- 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