EXTRAPOLATE
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)
Meaning:
Draw from specific cases for more general cases
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
extrapolate; generalize; generalise; 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
Meaning:
Estimate the value of
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
interpolate; extrapolate
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
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
