Extrapolate vs X - What's the difference?
extrapolate | x |
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
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a verb extrapolate
is to infer by extending known information.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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