interpolation
/ɪnˌtɜrpəˈleɪʃən/
noun
- The act of inserting something between other things, or something that has been inserted.
- His speech was full of unnecessary interpolations.
- Historians discovered an interpolation in the ancient text that was added later.
- The interpolation of new scenes changed the flow of the movie.
- A method of estimating a value between two known values.
- By interpolation, the engineer calculated the pressure at the midpoint of the pipe.
- The software uses interpolation to smooth out the animation frames.
- Linear interpolation is a simple way to guess a number between two points.
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