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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca