MEANING
to estimate beyond known observations by extending an existing pattern or relationship
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Words that belong together
- extrapolate from data
- extrapolate a trend
- cautiously extrapolate
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The model extrapolates the trend beyond the observed period.
We cannot safely extrapolate from one district to the whole country.
The estimate was extrapolated from incomplete records.
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Word forms
- Base
- extrapolate / extrapolates
- Past tense
- extrapolated
- Past participle
- extrapolated
- Present participle
- extrapolating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- extrapolate / extrapolates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are extrapolating
- Present perfect
- have/has extrapolated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been extrapolating
- Past
- extrapolated
- Past continuous
- was/were extrapolating
- Past perfect
- had extrapolated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been extrapolating
- Future
- will extrapolate / extrapolates
- Future continuous
- will be extrapolating
- Future perfect
- will have extrapolated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been extrapolating
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Usage notes
Primary curation section: Academic. Extrapolation goes outside the observed range; interpolation estimates within it. State assumptions and avoid treating projections as observations. extrapolate; extrapolates; extrapolated; extrapolated; extrapolating. Related noun: extrapolation.
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