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interpolation

Estimate of a value lying between two known values. For example, it is known that 132 is 169 and 142 is 196. Thus, the square of 13.5 can be interpolated as halfway between 169 and 196, i.e. 182.5 (the exact value is 182.25).

interpolation

Mathematical technique for using two values to calculate intermediate values. It is used in computer graphics to create smooth shadings.



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the supposed interpolation lacks a sufficient motive.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
10 It must be mentioned also that the learning of this age has left permanent traces of its influence on these fables, ll by causing the interpolation with them of some of those amusing stories which were so frequently introduced into the public discourses of the great preachers of those days, and of which specimens are yet to be found in the extant sermons of Jean Raulin, Meffreth, and Gabriel Barlette.
Fables by Aesop View in context
The reader will observe that the writer has been unable to keep the women out of an interpolation consisting only of four lines.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
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