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.
中文解释
1. polish => interpolate.2. polish => polite.3. => "to alter (a writing) by inserting new material".4. from extra- + ending from interpolate.
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.
