Extrapolate vs Detect - What's the difference?
extrapolate | detect |
To infer by extending known information.
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(mathematics) To estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within that range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known ones
As verbs the difference between extrapolate and detect
is that extrapolate is to infer by extending known information while detect is to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.As an adjective detect is
(obsolete) detected.extrapolate
English
Verb
(extrapolat)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get