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

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