extrapolation

How To Use extrapolation In A Sentence

• Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
• Opinion surveys naturally produce optimistic estimates, as do extrapolations of recent market returns.
• He estimate his income tax bill by extrapolation from figures submit in previous year.
• These ideas, their precursors, their extrapolations and their interpretations have been repeatedly turned over during the last 120 years.
• The remainder is blighted by alternating self-flagellation, self-justification and unwarranted extrapolation.
• As a scientist I'd need more detail before making an extrapolation.
• Expectation is a calculus of futurity, an extrapolation of narrativised past events into the future.
• One manifestation of this was the hypothesized existence of orgone which, as Wiki says, entailed: ... an extrapolation of the Freudian concept of libido as a physical, bioenergetic force, developed by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich in the late 1930s, who generalized and abstracted it far beyond Freud's semi-metaphoric use. Archive 2008-09-01
• Post et al. showed that quartz rheology is sensitive to water fugacity, but the above extrapolations do not apply to identical values of water fugacity.
• This has, I have noted, involved some rather ludicrous distortions of evidence as well as grand extrapolations from limited bases of data.