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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
extrapolate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Generally Helen would extrapolate on one of the more testing programmes coming out of her department.
▪ How far is it reasonable to extrapolate these results to the non-poor is a highly debatable point.
▪ Like carbon and oxygen, what is known has been extrapolated from reductionist experiments in the lab and computer modeling.
▪ The figures are wildly optimistic, and could only have been extrapolated from a short trial of about 10 operations.
▪ These cost data were then extrapolated to a 200 megawatt plant using various scale factors.
▪ Worsley and his colleagues have extrapolated these effects of the Supercontinental Cycle back into the Precambrian.
▪ You're extrapolating from your own feelings to mine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
extrapolate

1862 (in a Harvard observatory account of the comet of 1858), from extra- + ending from interpolate. Said in early references to be a characteristic word of Sir George Airy (1801-1892), English mathematician and astronomer. Related: Extrapolated; extrapolating.

Wiktionary
extrapolate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To infer by extending known information. 2 (context transitive mathematics English) 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

WordNet
extrapolate

  1. v. draw from specific cases for more general cases [syn: generalize, generalise, infer]

  2. estimate the value of [syn: interpolate]

  3. gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating

Usage examples of "extrapolate".

I threw Bult off the computer and set up the map, filling in the two holes with extrapolated topographies before I went back over to the table.

In a virtuous cycle, the more we learn, the more we will be able to extrapolate, hypothesize and understand.

You see, by extrapolating from data on known stellar types, I know approximately what this star was like in its palmy days.

Our disk model uses a quasi-linear viscosity parameterization that does not extrapolate well into the impending regime of extreme mass transfer.

If you plan to build in a rural area, they also maintain graphical representations of the average temperatures so that you may extrapolate them for your site.

May air, Ressler understands that this work, the lookup tablethat rung of the hierarchy linking the life principle with slavish molecular mechanicswill, the minute it is published, be turned to further work, extrapolated, taken farther afield than he can now guess.

Don Juan extrapolated from the occurrence that an ally had the capacity to intervene directly and withhold the deleterious, and usually fatal, effect resulting from noncompliance with its rule.

Because he had the Asurans extrapolate a solido of me from my genetic background?

M: There is, of course, more detail to these descriptions, however this can probably be extrapolated from the above.

Asurans had made, extrapolating a mature human body from her genetic back-ground.

CI modules extrapolate from the real worldthe real universeto form all their hallucinations and fantasies.

Gaia extrapolates the growth of the hormones, kin altruism, the brain, and suggests that genitalia are the true conscience of the world.

One educated guess has it that this -s alternates with a longer form -ryë (plausibly extrapolated from the possessive ending -rya "his/her"), but only the attested ending -s is used in the exercises below.

It had been mentioned in the log, samples of which had not posed the problems that the liquid opal had and which were still being analysed - and their use extrapolated from the all too small supply.

Extrapolating -- and she was very good at Extrapolating -- the weapon would have no trouble dismantling a planet even at a range of hundreds of AU.