Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information.
- intransitive verb Mathematics To estimate (a value of a variable outside a known range) from values within a known range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known values.
- intransitive verb To engage in the process of extrapolating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mathematics and astronomy, to determine (a value or quantity) by carrying out an empirical formula beyond the limits of the data from which the formula has been deduced. The results are usually more or less doubtful. See
interpolate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
infer byextending knowninformation . - verb transitive, mathematics To
estimate thevalue of avariable outside a knownrange from valueswithin that range byassuming that the estimated value followslogically from the known ones
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb estimate the value of
- verb draw from specific cases for more general cases
- verb gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ross does not try to extrapolate from the behavior of Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse and others to modern life.
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Ross does not try to extrapolate from the behavior of Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse and others to modern life.
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Sadly, many now extrapolate from the sins of a few bad apples like Enron and Countrywide to blame big companies for America's fall from grace.
Gary Shapiro: The Lesson: Americans Care About Our Future Gary Shapiro 2010
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The creators of Sherlock extrapolate from the solitary, brooding detective we find in the Conan Doyle stories and take Holmes to his logical conclusion.
Graham Moore: Sherlock Holmes Gets the US Weekly Treatment, and I Couldn't Be Happier Graham Moore 2010
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“The trouble with projections is that they extrapolate from the current reality, and often end up undershooting the mark,” Sunil Paul, a founding partner of Spring Ventures, a firm that invests in cleantech, told me.
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Sadly, many now extrapolate from the sins of a few bad apples like Enron and Countrywide to blame big companies for America's fall from grace.
Gary Shapiro: The Lesson: Americans Care About Our Future Gary Shapiro 2010
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Sadly, many now extrapolate from the sins of a few bad apples like Enron and Countrywide to blame big companies for America's fall from grace.
Gary Shapiro: The Lesson: Americans Care About Our Future Gary Shapiro 2010
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Sadly, many now extrapolate from the sins of a few bad apples like Enron and Countrywide to blame big companies for America's fall from grace.
Gary Shapiro: The Lesson: Americans Care About Our Future Gary Shapiro 2010
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Sadly, many now extrapolate from the sins of a few bad apples like Enron and Countrywide to blame big companies for America's fall from grace.
Gary Shapiro: The Lesson: Americans Care About Our Future Gary Shapiro 2010
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The creators of Sherlock extrapolate from the solitary, brooding detective we find in the Conan Doyle stories and take Holmes to his logical conclusion.
Graham Moore: Sherlock Holmes Gets the US Weekly Treatment, and I Couldn't Be Happier Graham Moore 2010
bilby commented on the word extrapolate
"Counting people tells some interesting things. Especially since computers enable us to extrapolate things into the future. Take this, for example: If the population of the earth were to increase at the present rate indefinitely, by AD 3530 the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the earth: and by AD 6826, the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the known universe."
- 'All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten', Robert Fulghum.
February 28, 2008