interpolate

Meaning

Verb

  • To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert (possibly spurious) words into a text.
  • To estimate the value of a function between two tabulated points.
  • During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.

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Origin

  • From Latin interpolare, Latin interpolatum, from inter and polire.

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