(mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values

Usage examples of extrapolation.

The review of one drab and uninspired extrapolation after another had drained his patience.

In order to decide whether or not to interrupt you to deliver it, I had to make an extrapolation of your mind.

This was very much in character with your previous instructions to me on these matters, and an extrapolation of your personality assured me you would not mind.

Long before the simulation or extrapolation technology was used for entertainment, it had been used by the early Gold School for predicting outcomes of political-economic policy decisions and of major data movements in worldwide memory space.

It had been his genetic extrapolation program that provided the key, that told them what Mbwun was, and how it could be killed.

He hit some more buttons, and the numbers on the screen twisted themselves into an extrapolation graph.

Smith readily agreed to do a series of novelettes constructed around the character Neal Cloud, a professional blaster of atomic vortices from power plants out of control, an extrapolation of the business of dynamiting blazing oil wells.

However, we have run two thousand extrapolations of the outcome of such a request before the Curia, and all of them agree that you will not prevail.

Your mansion extrapolations predict civilization tied to immobile and massive sources of power, Dyson Sphere within Dyson Sphere, with citizens existing in separate bodies only in their dreams.

University of Karlsruhe, Germany, recalculated the Georgi, Quinn, and Weinberg extrapolations making use of these experimental refinements and showed two significant things.

In simple physical systems the rules of scaling are understood, but even in complex inorganic situations like meteorology or aerodynamics, simple by the standard of biology, extrapolations are not easy.

Although Herbert employs esoteric electronic gimmickry and extrapolation from electroencephalography to suggest the birth of a new science, the real key to the story is the process of self-discovery Eric has to go through before he can find safety in the new realms of the mind.

If the overdose of tedium didn’t take any of the starch out of the Traveller delegation, it could only be due to their bizarre practice of spending all of every Sundy listening to a single extended sermon, with elaborate developments and codas and commentaries and extrapolations, and emendations on the extrapolations, and scattering slightly truncated versions of the same throughout the rest of the week.

We don't have enough data points yet to make a good extrapolation.

The alternative is not consonant with the ethical standards they have exhibited, nor with our logical extrapolation of their future course.