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Interpolation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTERPOLA'TION, n. The act of foisting a word or passage into a manuscript or book.
1. A spurious word or passage inserted in the genuine writings of an author.
I have changed the situation of some of the Latin verses, and made some interpolations.
2. In mathematics, that branch of analysis, which treats of the methods by which, when a series of quantities succeeding each other, and formed all according to some determinate law, are given, others subject to the same law may be interposed between them.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted; "with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in the margins" [syn: interpolation, insertion]
2: (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known
3: the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts [syn: interjection, interposition, interpolation, interpellation]

Merriam Webster's

noun see interpolate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(interpolations) An interpolation is an addition to a piece of writing. (FORMAL) The interpolation appears to have been inserted very soon after the original text was finished. = addition N-COUNT

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