extrapolate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ɛkˈstɹæp.əˌleɪt/, /ɪk-/
extrapolate (extrapolates, present participle extrapolating; past and past participle extrapolated)
- (transitive) To infer by extending known information.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
- 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{{...}
- (transitive, 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
- (mathematics) interpolate
- French: extrapoler
- Italian: estrapolare
- Portuguese: extrapolar
- Russian: экстраполи́ровать
- Spanish: extrapolar
- French: extrapoler
- German: extrapolieren
- Italian: estrapolare
- Portuguese: extrapolar
- Russian: экстраполи́ровать
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