Meaning & use
interpolate
To insert something, such as words or data, between other things, or to estimate a value between two known values.
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An editor discovered that a later scribe had interpolated extra lines into the original manuscript.
Scientists interpolated the missing temperature readings using the data on either side.
A note on using this word
In mathematics and statistics, interpolate specifically means to estimate an unknown value that falls between two known data points.
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