interpolation

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176-7 That is to say, Thou shalt submit thyself to God's commands and God's methods and thou shalt submit thyself to NO OTHER Omitting the Athenian and philosophic episode, which is unnecessary and a little unworthy even of the Christian poet, we encounter not an amplification of the Gospel story but an interpolation which is entirely Milton's own.

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  1. The act of interpolating; the insertion of new words or expressions in a book or manuscript; especially, the falsification of a text by spurious or unauthorized insertions.
  2. That which is interpolated; new or (especially) spurious matter inserted; an unannounced or unauthorized insertion in a text. Sir, I beseech you to accept or pardon these trifling interpolations which I have presumed to send you: not that they add any thing to your work, but testify the disposition I have to serve you. Evelyn, To Mr. Aubrey, Feb., 1675.
  3. In mathematics, the process of finding, from the given values of a function for certain values of the variable, its approximate value for an intermediate value of the variable. The formulæ ordinarily used for this purpose assume that the function is expressible as a polynomial in powers of the variable of the lowest order consistent with the given values.

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  • I am aware that this chapter dealing with Gordon and his letters is something of an interpolation, and has little to do with the main thread of the story; but Lady Burton wished it to be so, and its irrelevance may be pardoned for the sake of the light it throws upon the friendship which existed between three very remarkable personages, each curiously alike in some respects, and in others widely dissimilar NOTES: 1. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • Many programs use 'bicubic' interpolation, which, as with all common enlarging techniques, simply interpolates between existing pixels to create new pixels. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • After enlarging an image with bicubic interpolation, the sharp parts in the original image will become blurred just like the smooth parts, so it's not possible for such algorithms to distinguish which parts need more "" fixing "" than others. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • Oddly enough, but the image scaling by using bicubic interpolation is turned off in Internet Explorer. —  CSS Globe | Web Standards Magazine
  • The latter uses bilinear interpolation, cause that's one which is naturally built-in the 3D accellerators from the times they were born. —  Doom9's Forum
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  1. = French interpolation = Provencal interpolacio = Spanish interpolation = Portuguese interpolação = Italian interpolazione, from Latin interpolatio(n-), a dressing up, alteration, from interpolare, dress up, alter: see interpolate.
 

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