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Interpolation

noun

A message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted. Synonym: insertion. "With many insertions in the margins"

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

The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts. Synonyms: interjection, interpellation, interposition.

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... occurred in 1828, almost unparalleled in the annals of criminal atrocity, is significantly interesting with regard to Dickens' absorption of local and timely accessory, mostly of fact as against purely imaginative interpolation merely: ...

— Dickens' London • Francis Miltoun

... murmurs the general practitioner in answer to some interpolation of the outsider's. "I assure you, Manson, one sees all sorts ...

— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle

... point where the narrative was broken into for the interpolation of the episode now set forth, the head of the parade, as will be remembered, was just coming abreast of the old show-grounds. Now, the head of the parade was Cephus Fringe, and none other. One glance at him, upon a white ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... never gives us—we have seen, indeed, that it finds that its results contradict the facts of nature. The computations which the other sciences make differ in no respect from those of mathematics. The concepts used are all of them dots through which, by interpolation or extrapolation, curves are drawn, while along the curves other dots are found as consequences. The latest refinements of logic dispense with the curves altogether, and deal solely with the dots and their correspondences ...

— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James

... but the irregularities of the moon's motion being such as to cause some inequality in the different parts of this interval, the distance at the hour preceding, and at the hour following the time of observation, was found by interpolation from the two nearest given on each side; and having the distances at Greenwich for each hour, the observed distance can never fall more than half an hour from one of them; and the moon's inequalities ...

— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders

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