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Extrapolate vs Elaborate - What's the difference?

extrapolate | elaborate |

As verbs the difference between extrapolate and elaborate

is that extrapolate is to infer by extending known information while elaborate is (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about).

As an adjective elaborate is

highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

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

    Related terms

    * extrapolation * extrapolator * extrapolative

    elaborate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
  • :
  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
  • :
  • *
  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

    • Verb

    (elaborat)
  • (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) To give further detail or explanation (about).
    • What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate ?
    Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?