Expound vs Extrapolate - What's the difference?
expound | extrapolate |
To lay open; to expose to view; to examine or exposit.
To lay open the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length; to clear of obscurity; to interpret.
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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 expound and extrapolate
is that expound is to lay open; to expose to view; to examine or exposit while extrapolate is to infer by extending known information.expound
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(en verb)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