verb, -lat⋅ed, -lat⋅ing.| 1. | to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture. |
| 2. | Statistics. to estimate (the value of a variable) outside the tabulated or observed range. |
| 3. | Mathematics. to estimate (a function that is known over a range of values of its independent variable) to values outside the known range. |
| 4. | to perform extrapolation. |
extrapolate
extrapolation