interpolation
- Noun:
- The act of inserting something between other things: The action of introducing or interjecting a remark, comment, or piece of data into something else.
- An inserted remark or passage: A specific comment, word, or section that has been added into a text, conversation, or sequence.
- (Mathematics) Estimation within a known range: The process of estimating an unknown value of a function or quantity between two or more known values.
General Use (Insertion): The editor removed the unnecessary interpolation from the manuscript.His speech was interrupted by a rude interpolation from the audience.
Mathematical Use: The scientist used linear interpolation to estimate the temperature at noon.This graph shows the data points; the dashed line represents the interpolation between them.
"to make an interpolation": to insert a comment or remark. She made a helpful interpolation to clarify the complex point.
In data analysis: The technique of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points. Spline interpolation provides a smoother curve than simple linear interpolation.
Interpolate (verb): To insert something, especially words, into a text or conversation; to estimate a value mathematically. The author chose to interpolate a new paragraph into the chapter.We can interpolate the missing values from the surrounding data.
Interpolator (noun): A person or a device that performs interpolation.
- Insertion: The act of putting something into something else.
- Interjection: A remark interposed or inserted, often abruptly.
- Interpolation (mathematical synonym): Estimation, approximation.
- Extrapolation: The process of estimating something outside a known range, as opposed to within it ().
- Deletion: The act of removing or omitting something.
- Original text: The unaltered version before any additions.
- Linear interpolation: A method of curve fitting using linear polynomials to construct new data points.
- Polynomial interpolation: A form of interpolation where the interpolant is a polynomial.
- Textual interpolation: An addition to a document or manuscript made by someone other than the original author.
- the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
- (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known
- 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