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extrapolate
[ ik-strap-uh-leyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
- Statistics. to estimate (the value of a variable) outside the tabulated or observed range.
- Mathematics. to estimate (a function that is known over a range of values of its independent variable) to values outside the known range.
verb (used without object)
- to perform extrapolation.
extrapolate
/ ɪˈٰæəˌɪ /
verb
- maths to estimate (a value of a function or measurement) beyond the values already known, by the extension of a curve Compare interpolate
- to infer (something not known) by using but not strictly deducing from the known facts
extrapolate
/ ĭ-ٰă′ə-′ /
- To estimate the value of a quantity that falls outside the range in which its values are known.
Derived Forms
- ˈٰˌٴǰ, noun
- ˈٰDZپ, adjective
- ˌٰˈپDz, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ·ٰo·tDz noun
- ·ٰo·t ·ٰ···ٴ· [ik-, strap, -, uh, -l, uh, -tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], adjective
- ·ٰo·tǰ noun
- over··ٰo·tDz noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of extrapolate1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of extrapolate1
Example Sentences
Other critics have argued that the sample size is simply too small to extrapolate any of the Yale findings to the population at large.
As for the thorny task of comparing golfers across generations and even centuries, Arkush leans on the wisdom of Jones, whose words can be extrapolated fairly to include women as well as men:
So scientists have been running experiments monitoring how microbes degrade biochar over a few years in soil, then extrapolating that over longer time scales.
They also urge voters not to use poll results in a single state to extrapolate to other states, which inevitably have different electoral dynamics and demographic makeups.
Iris takes an oddball approach to acclimating her students to French: She extracts personal confessions from them in English, then writes wildly extrapolated versions of the French on index cards.
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