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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope