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

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke