extrapolate

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It's too much to kind of extrapolate, and it's a constant problem in futurism.

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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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  • And you extrapolate, from a promise to do these repairs spacewalking to the spacewalking required to assemble a space station. —  Omni: August 1994
  • Although it's always somewhat dangerous to extrapolate, it's fairly certain that the science here is doable. —  AnalogSF,June2003
  • It's not that she's unresponsive to pleasurable stimuli; it's that in her closed-off, Filofax-dependent world she's left herself little downtime to relax and extrapolate (which might be indicative of a past meaningful relationship having gone bad, which propelled her to seal off her personal life from the kinks she can't control with the business-related ones that she can). —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • That was 25 years ago, but the lesson stuck with me: don't extrapolate, and don't assume conditions are fixed. running inanity on CBS's MarketWatch site deserves a closer look. —  Sun Bloggers
  • It's too much to kind of extrapolate, and it's a constant problem in futurism. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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/ɛksˈtræpəleɪt/
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