Leverage vs Extrapolate - What's the difference?
leverage | extrapolate |
A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
By extension, any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
(finance) The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability of a business to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk.
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(business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high capacity utilization of a facility.
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(transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).
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 leverage and extrapolate
is that leverage is (transitive|chiefly|us|slang|business) to use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something) while extrapolate is to infer by extending known information.As a noun leverage
is a force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.leverage
English
Noun
(en-noun)- A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
- Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
- Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
- Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage .
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Synonyms
* (force compounded by a lever) mechanical advantage * (use of borrowed fund) financial leverage * (ability to earn high returns from high capacity utilization) operating leverageVerb
(leverag)Derived terms
* leveraged buyoutSynonyms
* (take full advantage of) exploit, useextrapolate
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
