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Definition: Extrapolate |
ExtrapolateVerb1. Draw from specific cases for more general cases. 2. Estimate the value of; in mathematics. 3. Gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "extrapolate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geological | To infer (values of a variable in an unobserved interval) from values within an already observed interval. (references) |
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Synonyms: ExtrapolateSynonyms: generalise (v), generalize (v), infer (v), interpolate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prediction | Extrapolate, project. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Extrapolate |
| Specialty definitions using "extrapolate": time-distance curve. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Therefore, the clinician must extrapolate reportedly successful preventive and arresting/remineralization techniques from children to adults, root caries, and anterior teeth. (references) | |
Business | Based on their experience, foreign manufacturers should be able to extrapolate these numbers and determine the size of the market for machinery. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Extrapolate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.93% of the time. "Extrapolate" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.93% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.34% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
extrapolate | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "extrapolate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ekstrapoloj. (various references) | |
Arabic | قدر إستقرائيا, إستنتج من سلسلة من الملاحظا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | екстраполирам. (various references) | |
Chinese | 外推 (Evert, Everted, Everting, extrapolated). (various references) | |
Farsi | قیاس کردن (Analogize), استقراء نمودن , ازروی قراءن وامارات پیش بینی کردن . (various references) | |
French | extrapoler. (various references) | |
German | extrapolieren. (various references) | |
Greek | εικάζω (conjecture, guess, speculate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לאמו" מלבר, לחיץ (button, compartmentalize, knobbutton, partition, pressbutton, push button, screen off). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elkülönít (confine, discriminate, island, isolate, seclude, segregate, separate, to detach, to disassociate, to dissever, to dissociate, to divide, to extricate, to ghettotize, to quarantine, to seclude, to section out, to separate, to sequester, to set apart, to sift), kikövetkeztet (to educe, to track). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengekstrapolasi. (various references) | |
Italian | estrapolare. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extrapolateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extrapolar. (various references) | |
Russian | экстраполировать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izvršiti ekstrapolaciju, izvesti vrednost. (various references) | |
Spanish | extrapolar. (various references) | |
Swedish | extrapolera, sluta sig till (deduce, infer, infer smth., reason out). (various references) | |
Turkish | verilerden bilinmeyene ulaşmak, tahmin etmek (anticipate, calculate, cast off, conjecture, divine, dope, dope out, estimate, forecast, guess, judge, presume, put down, suppose, surmise, take stock of), sonuca ulaşmak (come through, end, win through). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | екстраполірувати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "extrapolate": extrapolated, extrapolates. (additional references) | |
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"Extrapolate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entrapolate, exstrapolate, extapolate, extrapilate, extraplate, extrapoate, extraporate, extrapulate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "extrapolate" (pronounced ikstra"pulā't) |
| 5 | -p u l ā' t | interpolate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | annihilate, articulate, accumulate, adulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-l-o-p-r-t-t-x" | |
-3 letters: areolate, operetta, teleport, toeplate, tolerate. | |
-4 letters: apteral, areolae, exalter, explore, operate, oxalate, paletot, palette, parolee, partlet, peltate, petrale, platter, pleater, plotter, poleaxe, prattle, prelate, pretext, proette, prolate, replate, tapetal, treetop. | |
-5 letters: aerate, aortae, aortal, areola, areole, earlap, elater, eloper, expert, export, extort, latter, leaper, letter, oleate, palate, paleae, palter, parole, patrol, pattee, patter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-l-o-p-r-t-t-x" | |
+1 letter: extrapolated, extrapolates. | |
+2 letters: extrapolative. | |
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