1862 (in a Harvard observatory account of the comet of 1858), from extra- + ending from interpolate. Said in early references to be a characteristic word of Sir George Airy (1801-1892), English mathematician and astronomer. Related: Extrapolated; extrapolating.
实用例句
1. It is unhelpful to extrapolate general trends from one case.
根据一个案例来推断总的趋势是没有用的。
来自辞典例句
2. Sea - bottom reverberations would extrapolate back - wards in time to a zero member.
海底交混响就是按时间外推到一种时间零值的.
来自辞典例句
3. To determine the human dose - response curve, one must extrapolate down from the high - dose laboratory data.
要确定人类的剂量反应曲线, 就必须从高剂量的实验室数据进行外推.
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4. Forecasters can extrapolate the graph's future and then bet on the prediction.
这些预测者可以推测出图形的未来走向,然后在他们的预测上押注.
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5. There's more work to do and much to extrapolate.
