Extrapolate vs Foretell - What's the difference?
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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
To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.
* Alexander Pope
* C. Middleton
Extrapolate is a related term of foretell.
As verbs the difference between extrapolate and foretell
is that extrapolate is to infer by extending known information while foretell is to predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.extrapolate
English
Verb
(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
Antonyms
* (mathematics) interpolateforetell
English
Verb
- Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold .
- Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.