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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky