Extrapolate

Quick meaning: Extrapolate is a verb meaning (transitive) To infer by extending known information.

Meaning

(transitive) To infer by extending known information.

More Meanings

1. (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

Example Sentences

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[…]

Word Forms

• extrapolates
• extrapolating
• extrapolated

Synonyms for extrapolate

Depending on context, synonyms include infer, interpolate, generalize, generalise.

Antonyms for extrapolate

Common opposites include interpolate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include infer, generalize, interpolate, generalise, derive, speculate.

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