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Extrapolate - What does it mean?

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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

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