Usually means: Extend known data to predict.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. extrapolate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extrapolate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extrapolate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extrapolate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extrapolate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extrapolate, extrapolate: Wordnik
  7. extrapolate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extrapolate: Wiktionary
  9. extrapolate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extrapolate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extrapolate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. extrapolate: Dictionary.com
  13. Extrapolate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. extrapolate: Rhymezone
  15. extrapolate: Free Dictionary
  16. extrapolate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. extrapolate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  18. extrapolate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extrapolate: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. extrapolate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. extrapolate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extrapolate: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extrapolate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

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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

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