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What does extrapolation mean?

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Noun
  1. (mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
  2. An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.
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The party uses mass migration as an extrapolation of their ethnic branch stacking activities.
Therefore, it is not possible to estimate by extrapolation the O 2 concentration in the water resulting in anoxia in the lacunae.
An extrapolation of current trends clearly indicates the need for fundamental changes in the structure of supercomputing systems in the future.
Expectation is a calculus of futurity, an extrapolation of narrativised past events into the future.
So if extrapolation from our own case is involved in the idea of what it is like to be a bat, the extrapolation must be incompletable.
The calibration for 730 nm was obtained by extrapolation from the calibration graph.

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