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extrapolate

/ik-strap-uh-leyt/US // ɪkˈstræp əˌleɪt //UK // (ɪkˈstræpəˌleɪt) //

推断,外推法,推断出,外推

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v.有主动词 verb
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    ex·trap·o·lat·ed, ex·trap·o·lat·ing.

    • : to infer from something that is known; conjecture.
    • : Statistics. to estimate outside the tabulated or observed range.
    • : Mathematics. to estimate to values outside the known range.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·trap·o·lat·ed, ex·trap·o·lat·ing.

    • : to perform extrapolation.

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Examples

  • “We’re taking a sample and using it to extrapolate to something larger,” said microbiologist Marc Johnson of the University of Missouri.

  • Craftily extrapolating from current events, Davies creates a fascinating future that serves as a vibrant backdrop for the compelling family saga.

  • From this we can extrapolate – unless there’s dramatic improvement in the economy – that holiday shoppers will be more selective and value conscious than last year.

  • In extrapolating their performance this season, the A’s could challenge their 2018 mark.

  • Researchers can extrapolate from there what is happening in the rest of the state or country.

  • The study used data collected from 11 states to extrapolate rates for the US as a whole.

  • We can use evidence from the present to extrapolate about the past.

  • A sound pension should plan for the time on the bottom, not extrapolate from the moment on top.

  • But we can extrapolate from previous experience that decapitation does incentivize Hamas to ease up on its attacks.

  • “Voters extrapolate a lot from the process of your campaign,” Lehane says.

  • The scientists had worked late, trying to extrapolate their data into some kind of prediction.

  • Jamison began to extrapolate from his observations out the control-room port, adding film-clips for authority.

  • He saw his shortcoming, but could not do anything to help it: he was unable to extrapolate ahead.

  • You doubt it will be Hoskins, because you can't extrapolate how he might break—or even if he would.

  • Cochrane cocked an eye at Jamison, who could extrapolate at the drop of an equation.