About The Word Interpolation
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Interpolation
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What's The Definition Of Interpolation?
[n] the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
[n] (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known [n] a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted; "with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in the margins" Synonyms | Synonyms for Interpolation: insertion | interjection | interpellation | interposition Related Terms | Find terms related to Interpolation: addition | affix | allonge | appendix | approximation | aside | cadenza | coda | codicil | commentary | differentiation | division | embedment | enclitic | entrance | envoi | epilogue | episode | equation | evolution | extempore | extrapolation | flourish | graft | grafting | hot lick | impaction | impactment | implantation | impromptu | improvisation | infix | infixion | infusion | injection | inoculation | insert | insertion | insinuation | integration | intercalation | interjection | interlineation | interlocution | introduction | intromission | inversion | involution | lick | marginalia | multiplication | notation | note | obiter dictum | parenthesis | penetration | perfusion | postscript | practice | prefix | proclitic | proportion | reduction | remark | rider | riff | scholia | side remark | subtraction | suffix | tail | tessellation | tossing-in | transformation | transplant | transplantation | vamp See Also | break | calculation | computation | content | disruption | figuring | gap | interruption | message | reckoning | subject matter | substance Interpolation In Webster's Dictionary \In*ter`po*la"tion\, n. [L. interpolatio an
alteration made here and there: cf. F. interpolation.]
1. The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially
that which is spurious or foreign.
2. That which is introduced or inserted, especially something
foreign or spurious.
Bentley wrote a letter . . . . upon the scriptural
glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he
considered interpolations from a later hand. --De
Quincey.
3. (Math.) The method or operation of finding from a few
given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations,
other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the
series.
f(x) ~ f(x1) + (f(x2) - f(x1))(x-x1)/(x2 - x1) |
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