extrapolation

See also: Extrapolation

English

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extrapolation

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Etymology

Morphologically extrapolate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

extrapolation (countable and uncountable, plural extrapolations)

1. (mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
2. An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.
   • 2018, Suzannah Weiss, The Establishment, What A Fake ‘Female Orgasm’ Statistic Says About Gender Bias‎:

     Casting further doubt on Kerner’s extrapolations from Gebhard’s data, it’s unclear what happened during those 21 minutes of foreplay. Blow jobs? Kissing? Role-playing? We don’t know.

3. (music) The diametric opposite of interpolation.

Derived terms

• misextrapolation
• nonextrapolation
• overextrapolation
• underextrapolation

Related terms

• extrapolative
• extrapolatory
• interpolation

Translations

calculation of an estimate

Armenian: արտարկում (hy) (artarkum), էքստրապոլյացիա (hy) (ēkʻstrapolyacʻia) Catalan: extrapolació f Chinese: Mandarin: 延拓 (yántuò) Czech: extrapolace f Dutch: extrapolatie (nl) f Finnish: ekstrapolaatio (fi) French: extrapolation (fr) f Galician: extrapolación (gl) f German: Extrapolation (de) f, Hochrechnung (de) f Hungarian: extrapoláció (hu) Indonesian: ekstrapolasi (id) Irish: eachtarshuíomh m Italian: estrapolazione (it) f Japanese: 外挿 (がいそう, gaisō) Polish: ekstrapolacja (pl) f Portuguese: extrapolação f Romanian: extrapolare (ro) f Russian: экстраполя́ция (ru) f (ekstrapoljácija) Spanish: extrapolación f Swedish: extrapolering (sv) c Thai: การประมาณค่านอกช่วง Vietnamese: ngoại suy

inference

Czech: extrapolace f Dutch: extrapolatie (nl) f Finnish: ekstrapolaatio (fi) German: Extrapolation (de) f Greek: Ancient: παρεκβολή f (parekbolḗ) Indonesian: ekstrapolasi (id) Italian: estrapolazione (it) Polish: ekstrapolacja (pl) f Portuguese: extrapolação f Swedish: extrapolation (sv) c

French

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extrapolation

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Pronunciation

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Noun

extrapolation f (plural extrapolations)

1. extrapolation

Further reading

• “extrapolation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Noun

extrapolation c

1. an extrapolation; inference of a hypothetical situation.

Declension

Declension of extrapolation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	extrapolation	extrapolations
	definite	extrapolationen	extrapolationens
plural	indefinite	extrapolationer	extrapolationers
	definite	extrapolationerna	extrapolationernas

See also

• extrapolera
• extrapolering