Extrapolate vs Interpolation - What's the difference?
extrapolate | interpolation |
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
(music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
(mathematics, science) the process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
(computing) The process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program; see interpolate.
That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious.
As a verb extrapolate
is to infer by extending known information.As a noun interpolation is
an abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.extrapolate
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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) interpolateinterpolation
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Noun
(en noun)- Bentley wrote a letter upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. — De Quincey.