extrapolation

See also: Extrapolation

English

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^[1]:

     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

• nonextrapolation
• overextrapolation
• underextrapolation

Related terms

• extrapolative
• extrapolatory
• interpolation

Translations

calculation of an estimate

• Armenian: արտարկում (hy) (artarkum), էքստրապոլյացիա (hy) (ēkʻstrapolyacʻia)
• 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)
• Portuguese: extrapolação f
• Swedish: extrapolation (sv) c

French

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