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English
Etymology
From extra- + (inter)polate.
Pronunciation
Verb
extrapolate (third-person singular simple present extrapolates, present participle extrapolating, simple past and past participle extrapolated)
- (transitive) To infer by extending known information.
1992, Rudolf M 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
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Translations
to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
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Spanish
Verb
extrapolate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of extrapolar combined with te