extrapolation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.

   Casting further doubt on Kerner’s extrapolations from Gebhard’s data, it’s unclear what happened during those 21 minutes of foreplay. Blow jobs? Kissing? Role-playing? We don’t know.

2. 2
   noun

   an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations

3. 3
   noun

   (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values

4. 4
   noun

   A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.

Morphologically extrapolate + -ion

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