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Expound vs Extrapolate - What's the difference?

expound | extrapolate |

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

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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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  • 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