Usually means: Extending known information into unknown.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word extrapolating:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. extrapolating: Merriam-Webster
  2. extrapolating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. extrapolating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Extrapolating, extrapolating: Wordnik
  5. extrapolating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. extrapolating: Wiktionary
  7. extrapolating: Dictionary.com
  8. Extrapolating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. extrapolating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extrapolating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extrapolating: Medical dictionary

(Note: See extrapolate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (extrapolate)

verb:  (transitive) To infer by extending known information.
verb:  (transitive, 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
▸ Also see extrapolate


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