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 推断；推知；外推 - extrapolate (from/to something)
The figures were obtained by extrapolating from past trends. 这些数字是从过去的趋势推断出来的。 Try not to extrapolate too much from your own experience. 尽量不要从自己的经历中推断太多。 - extrapolate something (from/to something)
We have extrapolated these results from research done in other countries. 我们从其他国家所作的研究中推断出这些结果。 The results cannot be extrapolated to other patient groups. 这些结果不能以此类推应用于其他病人群体
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from extra- ‘outside’ + a shortened form of interpolate.- extrapolate (from/to something)