extrapolates

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He extrapolates: "Symmetrical frame composition, with the camera placed at the same height perpendicular to the setting, creates a noticeable rectilinear patterning from shot to shot as well as a high degree of uniformity, sensitizing one to subtle changes over time."

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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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  • Time even extrapolates the results of the study to people's own offspring: "the fact that both parents and nonparents in Elman's study reacted the same way to the pictures suggests that their responses are deeply ingrained and that they may be hard to mitigate simply by having children of their own." —  Jezebel
  • He extrapolates: "Symmetrical frame composition, with the camera placed at the same height perpendicular to the setting, creates a noticeable rectilinear patterning from shot to shot as well as a high degree of uniformity, sensitizing one to subtle changes over time." —  The Evening Class
  • Finally, the baseline extrapolates enacted defense appropriations for 2009, which represent only a portion of the amount needed for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and in coming years. ... —  Angry Bear
  • Without going much further, it should be clear that the critique of Chavez and Venezuela bears striking similarities to the critique of Nepal, particularly when one extrapolates the practical effects of the RCP's dogmatic demands of revoltuionary purity. —  Kasama
  • TJ extrapolates this concept, and exemplifies it with his own mythology. —  DarrenBarefoot.com
 

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