extrapolation
pronunciation
How to pronounce extrapolation in British English:
UK [ɪkˌstræpə'leɪʃn]
How to pronounce extrapolation in American English:
US [ɪkˌstræpəˈleʃən]
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- Noun:
- (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values
- an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations
Word Origin
- extrapolation (n.)
- 1867, noun of action from extrapolate by analogy of interpolation; original sense was "an inserting of intermediate terms in a mathematical series." Transferred sense of "drawing of a conclusion about the future based on present tendencies" is from 1889.
Example
- 1. Investors , banks , companies and consumers all tend to be guilty of the sin of extrapolation ;
- 2. It is an extrapolation with consequences .
- 3. In itself , such extrapolation is hardly fatal .
- 4. Moreover - and this is presumably what motivated kocherlakota 's comments - a naive extrapolation of year-to-date trends suggests that the manufacturing sector has bottomed out and is on the road to recovery .
- 5. Conservative extrapolation of current technology suggests that match-book size removable hard disks ( or the equivalent nonvolatile memory chips ) will store about 60 megabytes each .