Foresee vs Extrapolate - What's the difference?
foresee | extrapolate | Related terms |
To anticipate; to predict.
* 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
* Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
(obsolete) To provide.
* Francis Bacon
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
As verbs the difference between foresee and extrapolate
is that foresee is to anticipate; to predict while extrapolate is to infer by extending known information.foresee
English
Verb
- "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
- A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
- Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
See also
* forsee English irregular verbsextrapolate
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