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Interpolation vs Interjection - What's the difference?

interpolation | interjection |

As nouns the difference between interpolation and interjection

is that interpolation is an abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea while interjection is an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

interpolation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • Bentley wrote a letter upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. — De Quincey.

    Synonyms

    * (including and processing externally-fetched data) transclusion

    interjection

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
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  • Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man'' can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
    (21) (a)      ''Bill'', man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
    (21) (b)    ?''Bill
    , man, I really hate (topicalised NP)
  • An interruption; something interjected
  • See also

    * vocative * (wikipedia "interjection") ----