Interpolation

Quick meaning: Interpolation is a noun meaning (music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.

Meaning

(music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics, sciences) The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
2. (computing) The process of interpolating: including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program.
3. (music) The use of a melody from a previously recorded song, but recreated rather than sampled from that recording.
4. (editing, content analysis) That which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious.

Example Sentences

Today a widely established convention encloses all editorial interpolations in square brackets [like so] for clarity.

The melody itself is an interpolation of “The Streets of Cairo,” an Orientalist Tin Pan Alley song originally published in 1895.

Bentley wrote a letter […] upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand.

In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a LIST.

Word Forms

• interpolations

Synonyms for interpolation

Depending on context, synonyms include transclusion, interjection, interposition.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include interjection, interposition, interleaving, dither, altitude, intercalation.

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