extrapolate

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And if jurors extrapolate, they could say that, well, maybe he was planning to spend time with his lover after the search for his wife died down.

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  1. transitive verb To infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information.
  2. transitive verb Mathematics To estimate (a value of a variable outside a known range) from values within a known range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known values.
  3. intransitive verb To engage in the process of extrapolating.

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  • Men spoke in hushed voices in the next room, and suddenly her mother cried aloud in anguish. —  Stormwarden
  • And if jurors extrapolate, they could say that, well, maybe he was planning to spend time with his lover after the search for his wife died down. —  CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2004
  • This is a laudable lesson to extrapolate from the American election. —  British Blogs
  • \tab So even the demographic aspects of historiography have become impossible; data are out of date when we receive them and always incomplete-yet so numerous and so varied in reliability that several hundred humans/computers on my staff keep busy trying to analyze, collate, interpolate and extrapolate, and to weigh them against other data before incorporating them into the records. —  Time Enough For Love
  • "Yes." —  Cold Case
 

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/ɛksˈtræpəleɪt/
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