extrapolate

From extra- + (inter)polate.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈstɹæp.əˌleɪt/, /ɪk-/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ekˈstɹæp.əˌlæɪt/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ekʂʈrɑ poleːʈ/, /ekʂʈræːpoleːʈ/

extrapolate (third-person singular simple present extrapolates, present participle extrapolating, simple past and past participle extrapolated)

1. (transitive) To infer by extending known information.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

     With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]

2. (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

• (antonym(s) of “mathematics”): interpolate

• expound (upon)

extrapolate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of extrapolar combined with te