interpolate
English
Etymology
From Latin interpolare, Latin interpolatum, from inter (“between”) and polire (“to polish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪn.ˈtɜɹ.pə.ˌleɪt/
- Homophone: interpellate (some pronunciations)
Verb
interpolate (third-person singular simple present interpolates, present participle interpolating, simple past and past participle interpolated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert (possibly spurious) words into a text.
- in verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated
- (mathematics) To estimate the value of a function between two points between which it is tabulated.
- (computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.
- Joseph F. Ossanna, Nroff/Troff User's manual
- A macro is invoked in the same way as a request; a control line beginning .xx will interpolate the contents of macro xx.
- Wall, Christiansen, and Orwant, Programming Perl, 3rd Edition, 2000, p. 992.
- In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a
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- In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a
- Joseph F. Ossanna, Nroff/Troff User's manual
Synonyms
- (process fetched data in-line): transclude
Related terms
Translations
to introduce something, such as words, between other things, such as other words
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to estimate the value of a function
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to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data
Italian
Verb
interpolate
- second-person plural present indicative of interpolare
- second-person plural imperative of interpolare
- feminine plural of interpolato
Latin
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