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Definitions for: Interpolate
[v] insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
[v] estimate the value of; in mathematics
Webster (1913) Definition: In*ter"po*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Interpolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Interpolating.] [L.
interpolatus, p. p. of interpolare to form anew, to
interpolate, fr. interpolus, interpolis, falsified, vamped
up, polished up; inter between + polire to polish. See
Polish, v. t.]
1. To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.]
Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . .
. partly interpolated and interrupted. --Sir M.
Hale.
2. To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign
matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the
insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose
of the author.
How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated,
you may see by the vast difference of all copies and
editions. --Bp. Barlow.
The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by
another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some
think, interpolated by him for that purpose. --Pope.
3. (Math.) To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series,
according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a
number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the
law of that part of the series.
Synonyms: alter, extrapolate, falsify
See Also: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, edit, figure, reckon, redact, work out
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