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What does extrapolate mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To infer by extending known information.
  2. (mathematics) To estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within that range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known ones
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It does not require even half an education to guess why he feels obliged to adduce flimsy evidence and extrapolate fanciful conclusions from it.
It's part of their job to extrapolate from current trends, anticipate future problems, and head them off at the pass.
It may be difficult to extrapolate our findings to contemporary parturient women.
From the evidence found on the Moon, geophysicists can extrapolate a picture of the early history of the four terrestrial planets.
The computational model can extrapolate the morphogenetic movements of human organs such as the eye, heart, lung etc.
We can, however, extrapolate the photospheric magnetic field into the corona.

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