extrapolate
verb [intransitive, transitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they extrapolate | |
| he / she / it extrapolates | |
| past simple extrapolated | |
| past participle extrapolated | |
| -ing form extrapolating |
to estimate something or form an opinion about something, using the facts that you have now and that are relevant to one situation and supposing that they will be relevant to the new one 推斷；推知；外推 - extrapolate (from/to something)
The figures were obtained by extrapolating from past trends. 這些數字是從過去的趨勢推斷出來的。 Try not to extrapolate too much from your own experience. 盡量不要從自己的經歷中推斷太多。 - extrapolate something (from/to something)
We have extrapolated these results from research done in other countries. 我們從其他國家所作的研究中推斷出這些結果。 The results cannot be extrapolated to other patient groups. 這些結果不能以此類推應用於其他病人群體
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from extra- ‘outside’ + a shortened form of interpolate.- extrapolate (from/to something)