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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats