Interpolation Definition

interpolations
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interpolations

(music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.

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(mathematics, sciences) The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
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(computing) The process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program; see interpolate.

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That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious.
Bentley wrote a letter [...] upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. "” De Quincey.
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Origin of Interpolation

  • From French interpolation, from Latin interpolatio.

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Interpolation Sentence Examples

  • Matritensis 10041 (begun in the year A.D 94 8), the words are omitted under the heading council of Constantinople but inserted under the heading council of Toledo, in the former MS., above the line and in a later hand, which shows conclusively how the interpolation crept in.

  • Its use in the Eucharist of the undivided Church has been continued since the great schism, although the Eastern Church protests against the interpolation 1 Jevons, Introd.

  • The one is a problem of interpolation, the other a step towards the solution of an equation in finite differences.

  • If within the range5100-3700A, the constants are determined once for all, the formula seems capable of giving by interpolation results accurate to o 2 A, but as a rule the range to which the formula is applied will be much less with a corresponding gain in the accuracy of the results.

  • When attention was called to the interpolation in the 9th century it became one cause of the schism between East and West.

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