Associations to the word «Interpolate»

Wiktionary

INTERPOLATE, verb. (transitive) (intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into a text.
INTERPOLATE, verb. (mathematics) To estimate the value of a function between two points between which it is tabulated.
INTERPOLATE, verb. (computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.

Dictionary definition

INTERPOLATE, verb. Estimate the value of.
INTERPOLATE, verb. Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby.

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