EXTRAPOLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extrapolate mean? 

• EXTRAPOLATE (verb)
  The verb EXTRAPOLATE has 3 senses:

1. draw from specific cases for more general cases

2. estimate the value of

3. gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating

  Familiarity information: EXTRAPOLATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRAPOLATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they extrapolate    ... he / she / it extrapolates   
Past simple: extrapolated   
Past participle: extrapolated   
-ing form: extrapolating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw from specific cases for more general cases

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer

Hypernyms (to "extrapolate" is one way to...):

conclude; reason; reason out (decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "extrapolate"):

overgeneralise; overgeneralize (draw too general a conclusion)

universalise; universalize (make universal)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

extrapolation (an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Estimate the value of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

extrapolate; interpolate

Hypernyms (to "extrapolate" 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:

extrapolation ((mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "extrapolate" is one way to...):

deduce; deduct; derive; infer (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)

Domain category:

logic; logical system; system of logic (a system of reasoning)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

extrapolation (an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations)