Falsify vs Interpolate - What's the difference?
falsify | interpolate |
To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
* Spenser
To misrepresent.
To prove to be false.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
To counterfeit; to forge.
(finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(obsolete) To baffle or escape.
* Samuel Butler
(obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
(intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into a text.
(mathematics) To estimate the value of a function between two points between which it is tabulated.
(computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.
* , Nroff/Troff User's manual
* , 3rd Edition, 2000, p. 992.
As verbs the difference between falsify and interpolate
is that falsify is to alter so as to make false; to make incorrect while interpolate is (intransitive) to introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into a text.falsify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- to falsify a record or document
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
- By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
- Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
- to falsify coin
- (Story)
- (Daniell)
- For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe
- to falsify one's faith or word
- (Sir Philip Sidney)
Derived terms
* falsifiable * falsifiability * falsification * falsificationism * falsifierExternal links
* *interpolate
English
(Interpolation)Verb
(interpolat)- in verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated
- A macro is invoked in the same way as a request; a control line beginning .'''xx'' will '''interpolate the contents of macro ''xx .
- In Perl, variable interpolation' happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list '''interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a
''LIST.
