extrapolation
Example Sentences
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“We’re doing a big extrapolation from watching videos of robots doing laundry to a butler in my house that can do everything,” he said.
“When you look into the Feast of Seven Fishes, it’s sort of an extrapolation of that.”
From Salon
In 2016, he co-authored an analysis published in The BMJ asserting that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States—a claim critics have dismissed as a wild extrapolation.
From Science Magazine
Simple extrapolations from the impacts of invasive alien species observed today are likely to underestimate the magnitude of future impacts.
From Science Daily
Following the classical model, the AI compares information against learned examples, draws conclusions, and makes extrapolations.
From Science Daily
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