Hypertext Webster Gateway: "interpolation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Interpolation \In*ter`po*la"tion\, n. [L. interpolatio an
alteration made here and there: cf. F. interpolation.]
1. The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially
that which is spurious or foreign.
2. That which is introduced or inserted, especially something
foreign or spurious.
Bentley wrote a letter . . . . upon the scriptural
glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he
considered interpolations from a later hand. --De
Quincey.
3. (Math.) The method or operation of finding from a few
given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations,
other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the
series.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
interpolation
n 1: (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between
the values already known
2: the action of interjecting or interposing an action or
remark that interrupts [syn: {interjection}, {interposition},
{interpellation}]
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