extrapolation

Morphologically extrapolate +‎ -ion

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

• nonextrapolation
• overextrapolation
• underextrapolation

• extrapolative
• extrapolatory
• interpolation

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extrapolation f (plural extrapolations)

1. extrapolation

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

extrapolation c

1. an extrapolation; inference of a hypothetical situation.

• extrapolera
• extrapolering