extrapolation

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

extrapolation (countable and uncountable, plural extrapolations)

(mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.

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Translations

calculation of an estimate

Armenian: արտարկում (hy) (artarkum), էքստրապոլյացիա (hy) (ēkʿstrapolyacʿia)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 延拓 (yántuò)
Czech: extrapolace f
Dutch: extrapolatie (nl) f
Finnish: ekstrapolaatio (fi)
French: extrapolation (fr) f
German: Extrapolation (de) f
Hungarian: extrapoláció

Irish: eachtarshuíomh m
Italian: estrapolazione (it) f
Japanese: 外挿 (がいそう, gaisō)
Polish: ekstrapolacja (pl) f
Portuguese: extrapolação f
Romanian: extrapolare (ro) f
Russian: экстраполя́ция (ru) f (ekstrapoljácija)
Spanish: extrapolación f
Swedish: extrapolering (sv) c

inference

Czech: extrapolace f
Dutch: extrapolatie (nl) f
Finnish: ekstrapolaatio (fi)
German: Extrapolation (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: παρεκβολή f (parekbolḗ)

Italian: estrapolazione (it)
Portuguese: extrapolação f
Swedish: extrapolation c

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

extrapolation f (plural extrapolations)

extrapolation

Further reading

“extrapolation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

extrapolation c

an extrapolation; inference of a hypothetical situation.

Declension

Declension of extrapolation
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	extrapolation	extrapolationen	extrapolationer	extrapolationerna
Genitive	extrapolations	extrapolationens	extrapolationers	extrapolationernas

See also

extrapolera
extrapolering

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