Extrapolate
verb
To guess or estimate something using the information that is already known.
The scientists will extrapolate the data to predict the future trend.
Often appears as...
- extrapolate from
- extrapolate the data
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Academic
verb
To extend the application of something to an unknown situation by assuming that existing roles will remain valid or similar.
The economists extrapolated current trends into the future to forecast the economy.
Often appears as...
- extrapolate current trends
- extrapolate from
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To guess or estimate something using the information that is already known.
The scientists will extrapolate the data to predict the future trend.
Often appears as...
- extrapolate from
- extrapolate the data
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To extend the application of something to an unknown situation by assuming that existing roles will remain valid or similar.
The economists extrapolated current trends into the future to forecast the economy.
Often appears as...
- extrapolate current trends
- extrapolate from
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Use
Extrapolate is often used in sciences to predict outcomes based on known data.
Using past climate data, we can extrapolate future weather conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Data
Extrapolate stresses on using existing information to reach new conclusions.
We can extrapolate from this study to understand other related issues.
Pro Tip 3/3Careful Guess
Even though 'extrapolate' includes guessing, it's an educated and careful prediction.
By examining the trend, marketers often extrapolate future consumer behavior.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Use
Extrapolate is often used in sciences to predict outcomes based on known data.
Using past climate data, we can extrapolate future weather conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Data
Extrapolate stresses on using existing information to reach new conclusions.
We can extrapolate from this study to understand other related issues.
Pro Tip 3/3Careful Guess
Even though 'extrapolate' includes guessing, it's an educated and careful prediction.
By examining the trend, marketers often extrapolate future consumer behavior.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Use
Extrapolate is often used in sciences to predict outcomes based on known data.
Using past climate data, we can extrapolate future weather conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Data
Extrapolate stresses on using existing information to reach new conclusions.
We can extrapolate from this study to understand other related issues.
Pro Tip 3/3Careful Guess
Even though 'extrapolate' includes guessing, it's an educated and careful prediction.
By examining the trend, marketers often extrapolate future consumer behavior.
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How we should name our...
do is you can calculate based on how many people do they're these initials what if what kind of boost you would get if that part can happen to do a lot of damaging we're trying to extrapolate from people and I'll show you here it varies pretty dramatically so what do you find is that you know we hope there won't be any damaging programs but if this here hosting white hand happens to
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Michael Dickinson: How a...
You select one set of cells to perform one sort of behavior, another neuromodulator, another set of cells, a different pattern, and you can imagine you could extrapolate to a very, very complicated system. Is there any evidence that flies do this? Well, for many years in my laboratory and other laboratories around the world,
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How the pandemic will...
will be worse as we get into the fall. So there are scenarios where in the US, like, if you extrapolate those numbers forward, we end up with, what, more than a quarter of a million deaths, perchance, even this year if we're not careful, and worldwide, I guess the death toll could, by the end of the year,
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Hans Rosling: Let my...
All these green countries are achieving millennium development goals. These yellow are just about to be doing this. These red are the countries that doesn't do it, and the policy has to be improved. Not simplistic extrapolation. We have to really find a way of supporting those countries in a better way.
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How designing brand-new...
because it's a master protein chopper, that's its job. So let me get this in here. And you know, as I said, it's a master protein chopper and what you can do is you can extrapolate what it's doing in this milk to what it would be doing in your laundry.
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Where are all the...
Imagine a summer civilization developing a level of technology more advanced than ours, but tech based on accepted physics though, I'm not talking wormholes or warp drives -- whatever -- just an extrapolation of the sort of tech that TED celebrates.
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
there you go we were looking for the mistakes so that's probably we we we did this experiment on the show as well and this again has to do with you know your brain wants to extrapolate information from the world as quickly as possible
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Questioning the universe...
Then it was discovered that the universe was expanding. Distant galaxies were moving away from us. This meant they must have been closer together in the past. If we extrapolate back, we find we must have all been on top of each other
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Patricia Burchat:...
but would rather bend and could end up going into our eye. Where will this observer see the galaxy? You can respond. Up, right? We extrapolate backwards and say the galaxy is up here. Is there any other ray of light
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Questioning the universe...
universe was expanding distant galaxies were moving away from us this meant they must have been closer together in the past if we extrapolate back we find they
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How we should name our...
do is you can calculate based on how many people do they're these initials what if what kind of boost you would get if that part can happen to do a lot of damaging we're trying to extrapolate from people and I'll show you here it varies pretty dramatically so what do you find is that you know we hope there won't be any damaging programs but if this here hosting white hand happens to
Video examples
Michael Dickinson: How a...
You select one set of cells to perform one sort of behavior, another neuromodulator, another set of cells, a different pattern, and you can imagine you could extrapolate to a very, very complicated system. Is there any evidence that flies do this? Well, for many years in my laboratory and other laboratories around the world,
Video examples
How the pandemic will...
will be worse as we get into the fall. So there are scenarios where in the US, like, if you extrapolate those numbers forward, we end up with, what, more than a quarter of a million deaths, perchance, even this year if we're not careful, and worldwide, I guess the death toll could, by the end of the year,
Video examples
Hans Rosling: Let my...
All these green countries are achieving millennium development goals. These yellow are just about to be doing this. These red are the countries that doesn't do it, and the policy has to be improved. Not simplistic extrapolation. We have to really find a way of supporting those countries in a better way.
Video examples
How designing brand-new...
because it's a master protein chopper, that's its job. So let me get this in here. And you know, as I said, it's a master protein chopper and what you can do is you can extrapolate what it's doing in this milk to what it would be doing in your laundry.
Video examples
Where are all the...
Imagine a summer civilization developing a level of technology more advanced than ours, but tech based on accepted physics though, I'm not talking wormholes or warp drives -- whatever -- just an extrapolation of the sort of tech that TED celebrates.
Video examples
Mind Blown - Hangout to...
there you go we were looking for the mistakes so that's probably we we we did this experiment on the show as well and this again has to do with you know your brain wants to extrapolate information from the world as quickly as possible
Video examples
Questioning the universe...
Then it was discovered that the universe was expanding. Distant galaxies were moving away from us. This meant they must have been closer together in the past. If we extrapolate back, we find we must have all been on top of each other
Video examples
Patricia Burchat:...
but would rather bend and could end up going into our eye. Where will this observer see the galaxy? You can respond. Up, right? We extrapolate backwards and say the galaxy is up here. Is there any other ray of light
Video examples
Questioning the universe...
universe was expanding distant galaxies were moving away from us this meant they must have been closer together in the past if we extrapolate back we find they
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Dan Schulman
American Businessman
I think that sometimes people talk about disruption, and I've seen tons of startups come in as disruptors and then disappear. And I think what we need to do as an industry is think about a world that is dominated by mobile and software and not extrapolate from what was. And I think a lot of big companies tend to want to do that.
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Nigel Hamilton
British Author
Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual's life lessons and insights that we can all learn from - I am each time overwhelmed by joy.
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Samantha Power
Irish Public Servant
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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George Saunders
American Writer
For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.
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Harriet Walter
English Actress
I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
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Sonia Sotomayor
American Judge
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
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Jamais Cascio
American Writer
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.
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Hannes Alfven
Swedish Scientist
I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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David Lowery
American Director
I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.
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Faith Salie
American Journalist
I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!
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Dan Schulman
American Businessman
I think that sometimes people talk about disruption, and I've seen tons of startups come in as disruptors and then disappear. And I think what we need to do as an industry is think about a world that is dominated by mobile and software and not extrapolate from what was. And I think a lot of big companies tend to want to do that.
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Nigel Hamilton
British Author
Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual's life lessons and insights that we can all learn from - I am each time overwhelmed by joy.
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Samantha Power
Irish Public Servant
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Quote examples
George Saunders
American Writer
For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.
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Harriet Walter
English Actress
I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
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Sonia Sotomayor
American Judge
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
Quote examples
Jamais Cascio
American Writer
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.
Quote examples
Hannes Alfven
Swedish Scientist
I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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David Lowery
American Director
I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.
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Faith Salie
American Journalist
I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!
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