Forecast vs Extrapolate - What's the difference?
forecast | extrapolate | Synonyms |
To estimate how something will be in the future.
(obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
* Milton
An estimation of a future condition.
A prediction of the weather.
:* What's the forecast for tomorrow?
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
Forecast is a synonym of extrapolate.
As verbs the difference between forecast and extrapolate
is that forecast is to estimate how something will be in the future while extrapolate is to infer by extending known information.As a noun forecast
is an estimation of a future condition.forecast
English
(wikipedia forecast)Verb
- to forecast the weather
- to forecast a storm
- If it happen as I did forecast .
Noun
(en noun)External links
* *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