Associations to the word «Extrapolate»

Wiktionary

EXTRAPOLATE, verb. (transitive) To infer by extending known information.
EXTRAPOLATE, verb. (transitive) (mathematics) 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

Dictionary definition

EXTRAPOLATE, verb. Draw from specific cases for more general cases.
EXTRAPOLATE, verb. Estimate the value of.
EXTRAPOLATE, verb. Gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne