What does interpolation mean?

Here's a list of possible definitions for the term interpolation:

Princeton's WordNet

  1. interpolation, insertion(noun)

    a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted


  2. interpolation(noun)


  3. interjection, interposition, interpolation, interpellation(noun)

    the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts


  1. interpolation(Noun)

    An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.

  2. interpolation(Noun)

    the process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.

  3. interpolation(Noun)

    The process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program; see interpolate.

  4. interpolation(Noun)

    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. uE000106101uE001 De Quincey.

  5. Origin: interpolatio an alteration made here and there: compare interpolation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Interpolation(noun)

    the act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign

  2. Interpolation(noun)

    that which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious

  3. Interpolation(noun)

    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

  4. Origin: [L. interpolatio an alteration made here and there: cf. F. interpolation.]


  1. Interpolation


The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Interpolation

    A process used in getting a closer approximation to the truth from two varying observations, as of a galvanometer. The process varies for different cases, but amounts to determining an average or deducing a proportional reading from the discrepant observed ones.


  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of interpolation in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of interpolation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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