Definizione monolingua

extrapolate

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. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, 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

Definizione dizionario extrapolate

	estrapolare
	to infer by extending known information
	to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range

Altri significati:

(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

(transitive) To infer by extending known information.

To infer an unknown from something that is known.