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INTERPOLATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they interpolate ... he / she / it interpolates
Past simple: interpolated
Past participle: interpolated
-ing form: interpolating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "interpolate" is one way to...):
edit; redact (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
interpolation (the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts)
interpolation (a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Estimate the value of
Synonyms:
extrapolate; interpolate
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "interpolate" is one way to...):
calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out (make a mathematical calculation or computation)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
interpolation ((mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known)
