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Definition of Interpolation

1. Noun. A message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted. "With many insertions in the margins"

2. Noun. (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known.

3. Noun. The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts.

Definition of Interpolation

1. n. The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.

Definition of Interpolation

1. Noun. (music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea. ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics science) the process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points. ¹

3. Noun. (computing) The process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program; see interpolate. ¹

4. Noun. That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Interpolation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Interpolation

1. 1. The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign. 2. That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious. "Bentley wrote a letter . . . . Upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand." (De Quincey) 3. The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series. Origin: L. Interpolatio an alteration made here and there: cf. F. Interpolation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interpolation

interploidy interpluvial interpoint interpointed interpointing interpoints interpolable interpolant interpolants interpolate

interpolated interpolated extrasystole interpolated flap interpolates interpolating interpolation (current term) interpolations interpolative interpolator interpolators

interpolymer interpolymeric interpolymers interponent interponents interpopulation interposable interposal interposals interpose

Literary usage of Interpolation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sources of the Synoptic Gospels by Carl Safford Patton, ( (1915)
"LUKE'S GREAT interpolation: ITS NON-USE OF MARK Thruout this Great interpolation, Luke entirely forsakes Mark.1 Out of the two hundred and fifty-two verses ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"interpolation, in the ordinary sense, consists in determining the value of и for a ... This may be described as direct interpolation, to distinguish it from ..."

3. Graphical and Mechanical Computation by Joseph Lipka (1918)
"interpolation. 95. Graphical interpolation. — Having found the empirical formula connecting two measured quantities we may use this in the process of ..."

4. Smithsonian Mathematical Tables: Hyperbolic Functions by George Ferdinand Becker, Charles Edwin Van Orstrand, Smithsonian Institution (1909)
"It is not easy to describe the use of the tables which follow without some notes on the methods of interpolation with reference to which they are arranged. ..."

5. A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy with Its Applications to the by Simon Newcomb (1906)
"The simplest cases of interpolation are the two following: CASE I. The ... To effect an interpolation we have only to multiply the variation by the elapsed ..."

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