What is "interpolate"

Usage examples of "interpolate".

Nori, curt, without the usual flowery phrases, and addressed impudently, To the Leader of the Gai-jin, so he had translated it as best he could in the same fashion, interpolating it where necessary: The roju congratulates you and other gai-jin on your escape with your lives and little else from fires started by malcontents and revolutionaries.

At this point the legend of the Saite and Greek period interpolates a whole chapter, telling how the chest was carried out to sea and cast upon the Phoenician coast near to Byblos.

Wagner must have learnt between Das Rheingold and the Kaisermarsch that there are yet several dramas to be interpolated in The Ring after The Valkyries before the allegory can tell the whole story, and that the first of these interpolated dramas will be much more like a revised Rienzi than like Siegfried.

Her account of her engagement was neither fluent nor coherent, but by dint of frequently interpolated questions he was able to piece the story together, if not entirely to understand the circumstances which had induced her to enter into an engagement with a man for whom she felt not a scrap of affection.

Here, a composer who had not got an interpolated number in the show was explaining to another composer who had not got an interpolated number in the show the exact source from which a third composer who had got an interpolated number in the show had stolen the number which he had got interpolated.

It has been replaced with an artificial device that interpolates speech both in and out.

That he creates spurious imitations of creation, and then interpolates them for that authentic creation.

Wraxton hung on the outskirts of it, occasionally interpolating a few words which no one paid any heed to.

Such laboured attempts at engaging Marianne's attention as were embarked upon by Martin were met by shy, monosyllabic responses, and it was not until Gervase, abandoning Miss Morville to his cousin, began to talk to Marianne, interpolating such leading questions as must draw Martin into the conversation, that the ice between these old acquaintances melted.

Miss Morville, who had contrived to evade giving an account of her discoveries at Whissenhurst, and who had no wish to be more closely interrogated on the subject, encouraged these tedious reminiscences, and by interpolating a question now and then managed to keep her ladyship's mind occupied until the appearance of the gentlemen turned her thoughts towards whist.

Once the AIs had learned to perform revivs on vitrified subjects, interpolating the newly gained knowledge to fix any freezing damage to neurons had been an easy project.

By combining and interpolating between its data inputs, it is able to compute and synthesize the complete sensory input that would be experienced by a person located at any particular place.

But as the moon does not complete thirty days in each month, and so there are fewer days in the lunar year than in that measured by the course of the sun, he interpolated intercalary months and so arranged them that every twentieth year the days should coincide with the same position of the sun as when they started, the whole twenty years being thus complete.

This was, however, exactly what was done with the Conan stories: not only were they presented following someone else’s reconstruction of the character’s “biography,” but pastiches of arguable quality (to say the least) were interpolated among Howard’s tales.

Nor could the giants, as theologists sometimes claim, have been interpolated into the texts later in order to symbolise evil.