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Webster 1913 Edition
Interpolate
In-ter′po-late
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Interpolated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Interpolating
.] [L. ]
interpolatus
, p. p. of interpolare
to form anew, to interpolate, fr. interpolus
, interpolis
, falsified, vamped up, polished up; inter
between + polire
to polish. See Polish
, Verb.
T.
1.
To renew; to carry on with intermission.
[Obs.]
Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly
interpolated
and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.
2.
To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author.
How strangely Ignatius is mangled and
interpolated
, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow.
The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some think,
interpolated
by him for that purpose. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Interpolate
IN'TERPOLATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To renew; to begin again; to carry on with intermission; as a succession of interpolated motions.2.
To foist in; to insert, as a spurious word or passage in a manuscript or book; to add a spurious word or passage to the original. The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law which was cited by Solon, or as some think, interpolated by him for that purpose.
Definition 2024
interpolate
interpolate
English
Verb
interpolate (third-person singular simple present interpolates, present participle interpolating, simple past and past participle interpolated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into a text.
- in verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated
- (mathematics) To estimate the value of a function between two points between which it is tabulated.
- (computing) 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.
- Joseph F. Ossanna, Nroff/Troff User's manual
- A macro is invoked in the same way as a request; a control line beginning .xx will interpolate the contents of macro xx.
- Wall, Christiansen, and Orwant, Programming Perl, 3rd Edition, 2000, p. 992.
- In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a
LIST.
- In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a
- Joseph F. Ossanna, Nroff/Troff User's manual
Synonyms
- (process fetched data in-line): transclude
Related terms
Translations
to introduce something, such as words, between other things, such as other words
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to estimate the value of a function
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to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data
Italian
Verb
interpolate
- second-person plural present indicative of interpolare
- second-person plural imperative of interpolare
- feminine plural of interpolato