verb
- estimated or concluded something by extending or projecting known information
Usage: past tense of extrapolate
Examples
- Scientists extrapolated the population growth from the current data.
- She extrapolated the company’s future profits based on last year’s trends.
- The researchers extrapolated climate patterns from historical records.
- He extrapolated the results to apply to the entire population.
- The economist extrapolated unemployment rates for the next decade.
- They extrapolated the survey findings to represent national opinion.