Crossword clues for extrapolation
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1867, noun of action from extrapolate by analogy of interpolation; original sense was "an inserting of intermediate terms in a mathematical series." Transferred sense of "drawing of a conclusion about the future based on present tendencies" is from 1889.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mathematics English) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values. 2 An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.
WordNet
n. (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values
an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations
Wikipedia
In mathematics, extrapolation is the process of estimating, beyond the original observation range, the value of a variable on the basis of its relationship with another variable. It is similar to interpolation, which produces estimates between known observations, but extrapolation is subject to greater uncertainty and a higher risk of producing meaningless results. Extrapolation may also mean extension of a method, assuming similar methods will be applicable. Extrapolation may also apply to human experience to project, extend, or expand known experience into an area not known or previously experienced so as to arrive at a (usually conjectural) knowledge of the unknown (e.g. a driver extrapolates road conditions beyond his sight while driving). The extrapolation method can be applied in the interior reconstruction problem.
Extrapolation is an academic journal covering speculative fiction. It was established in 1959 by Thomas D. Clareson and was published at the College of Wooster. In 1979 it moved to the Kent State University Press. A decade later, Clareson stepped down as editor-in-chief and was succeeded by Donald M. Hassler of the KSU English Department. In 2002 the journal was transferred to the University of Texas at Brownsville. At that time Donald M. Hassler became executive editor, and the position of editor was filled by Javier A. Martinez of UTB/TSC's Department of English. In 2007 Hassler retired and the current editors are Martinez, Andrew M. Butler ( Canterbury Christ Church University), Michael Levy ( University of Wisconsin-Stout), Wendy Pearson ( University of Western Ontario), and John Rieder ( University of Hawaii).
Extrapolation is the debut album by jazz guitarist John McLaughlin. It was recorded at Advision Studios in London on January 18, 1969 and first released later that year in the United Kingdom by Giorgio Gomelsky's Marmalade Records.
The album was not released in the United States until 1972, following McLaughlin's success as the leader of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. The first US release and other subsequent re-issues are on the Polydor Records label.
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.