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Displace vs Extrapolate - What's the difference?

displace | extrapolate |

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

English

Verb

(displac)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    extrapolate

    English

    Verb

    (extrapolat)
  • To infer by extending known information.
  • *
  • 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