verb
Meaning 1
To infer by extending known information.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
extrapolate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /ɛkˈstɹæp.əˌleɪt/
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Australian: /ekˈstɹæp.əˌlæɪt/
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verb
Meaning 2
To estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within that range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known ones
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deduce, infer, deduct, derive
verb
Meaning 4
estimate the value of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: interpolate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
verb
Meaning 5
draw from specific cases for more general cases
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: generalize, generalise, infer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reason, reason out, conclude
Narrower terms: overgeneralize, overgeneralise, universalize, universalise
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1éǵh Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h1éǵhs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h1eǵhsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā English extra- English (inter)polate English extrapolate From extra- + (inter)polate.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: extrapolar — to infer by extending known information
- Chinese Mandarin: 外推 (wài tuī) — to infer by extending known information
- Czech: extrapolovat — to infer by extending known information
- Danish: ekstrapolere — to infer by extending known information
- Finnish: yleistää — to infer by extending known information
- French: extrapoler — to infer by extending known information
- Galician: extrapolar — to infer by extending known information
- German: extrapolieren — to infer by extending known information
- German: erschließen — to infer by extending known information
- German: hochrechnen — to infer by extending known information
- Hungarian: extrapolál — to infer by extending known information
- Irish: eachtarshuigh — to infer by extending known information
- Italian: estrapolare — to infer by extending known information
- Macedonian: екстраполира (ekstrapolira) — to infer by extending known information
- Polish: ekstrapolować — to infer by extending known information
- Portuguese: extrapolar — to infer by extending known information
- Romanian: extrapola — to infer by extending known information
- Russian: экстраполи́ровать (ekstrapolírovatʹ) — to infer by extending known information
- Serbo-Croatian: ekstrapolírati — to infer by extending known information
- Spanish: extrapolar — to infer by extending known information
- Ukrainian: екстраполюва́ти (ekstrapoljuváty) — to infer by extending known information
- Chinese Mandarin: 外推 (wài tuī) — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Czech: extrapolovat — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Danish: ekstrapolere — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Finnish: ekstrapoloida — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- French: extrapoler — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- German: extrapolieren — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Irish: eachtarshuigh — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Italian: estrapolare — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Polish: ekstrapolować — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Portuguese: extrapolar — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Russian: экстраполи́ровать (ekstrapolírovatʹ) — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Serbo-Croatian: ekstrapolírati — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Swedish: extrapolera — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Tagalog: iduklay — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range
- Ukrainian: екстраполюва́ти (ekstrapoljuváty) — to estimate the value of a variable outside a known range