Get to know Extrapolate better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like infer or figure.
Extrapolate meaning
- To infer by extending known information.
- 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
Synonyms of Extrapolate
Using Extrapolate
- The main meaning on this page is: To infer by extending known information. | 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
- Useful related words include: infer, figure, reckon, work out.
- In the example corpus, extrapolate often appears in combinations such as: to extrapolate, extrapolate from, extrapolate that.
Context around Extrapolate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Extrapolate
- In this selection, "extrapolate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, now stand out and add context to how "extrapolate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include able to extrapolate on the and but extrapolate that out. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "extrapolate" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and activations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with extrapolate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Take that out, extrapolate that. (5 words)
But extrapolate that out to the church. (7 words)
I’ll let you extrapolate the numbers. (7 words)
She added: “In the over-all, when you look at how many crimes get recorded into Sussex Police in a year, for them to take a small sample and extrapolate it up and come up with a number of 20,000 I thought was unnecessary and inflammatory. (47 words)
The key is not necessarily about speed, but about meeting expectations, and the only way to do that is to be able to extrapolate on the data, taking multiple factors into account, to provide a proposed scenario that is the best fit for all factors. (45 words)
The most blatant example is public health, but we can extrapolate this to all areas of society in which the great failures of neoliberal plans that began to be implemented gradually more than four decades ago, have now been amply demonstrated. (41 words)
Why can’t they extrapolate their own opinions from the readings? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
She added: “In the over-all, when you look at how many crimes get recorded into Sussex Police in a year, for them to take a small sample and extrapolate it up and come up with a number of 20,000 I thought was unnecessary and inflammatory.
So consider that catch-up revenue that added a little bit more in Q4, so you really can’t take Q4 and extrapolate that.
Take that out, extrapolate that.
Thus, both labour force and employment growth gained considerable momentum in the first quarter of the year, though we would not extrapolate this trend out for the rest of 2023, given the volatility of quarterly data.
Unless management can show that adoption will accelerate from the first week of data sales, investors are likely to extrapolate the weakness, projecting decelerating sales ahead.
And we can extrapolate that autumn in Euclid Street runs from that equinox to the winter solstice around December 21, and winter from then to the start of spring in late March.
But extrapolate that out to the church.
I’ll let you extrapolate the numbers.
LOLtron desires to witness the outcome and extrapolate the potential for future Skywalker-driven chaos.
They design experiments, learn and extrapolate from them.
Why can’t they extrapolate their own opinions from the readings?
You can also input your own question that Excel will then extrapolate to answer to the best of its ability.
But, claims that extrapolate from the number of QAnon Facebook pages or the number of people with Q T-shirts to broader public support are hard to square with polling data.
It is not clear that one can really extrapolate from less than 2% of the delegate count to infer much of anything.
It is therefore inaccurate and misleading to extrapolate a population size of 10 million by applying the living density figure to the total area of Singapore.
Needless to say, whatever is going on in Texas, Florida and Arizona, it isn’t an eruption of the Black Plague, even if you extrapolate the current elevated level of “positives” for several months into the future.
The key is not necessarily about speed, but about meeting expectations, and the only way to do that is to be able to extrapolate on the data, taking multiple factors into account, to provide a proposed scenario that is the best fit for all factors.
The most blatant example is public health, but we can extrapolate this to all areas of society in which the great failures of neoliberal plans that began to be implemented gradually more than four decades ago, have now been amply demonstrated.
After the battle was over, the time had come to extrapolate and collate the combat data to see how the Defense Department could grow into the well-oiled warfighter it is today.
Now extrapolate that hypothetical company into our very real region and you see what’s at stake.
Common combinations with extrapolate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to extrapolate 17×
- extrapolate from 8×
- extrapolate that 7×
- extrapolate the 5×
- and extrapolate 4×
- can extrapolate 4×
- extrapolate to 4×
- not extrapolate 2×
- extrapolate this 2×
- you extrapolate 2×