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interpolation
noun
An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
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The word "interpolation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process of estimating values between two known values. For example, "By using a technique of interpolation, we were able to estimate the value of the unknown quantity."
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The first paper gives a model-theoretic proof of interpolation whereas the second paper gives an algorithm for calculating interpolants based on a tableau system.
"Square brackets," the grammarian said, "are used in direct quotes when an interpolation [a note from the writer or editor, not uttered by the speaker] is added to provide essential information".
The interpolation process is good at removing blur and judder, but it can make the motion appear unnaturally smooth and disconcerting.
Take a picture of a shiny object, such as a silver teapot, and you may notice strange coloured speckles, or artefacts, in the brightest parts of the image where the interpolation has been fooled.
Its vision seems to be of a computer screen with a message that the website you seek is unavailable; or perhaps of a mysterious encounter at immigration, and the interpolation of "other business" between check-in and flight.
So once the picture has been taken, the camera's software fills in the missing information through mathematical guesswork, or interpolation, based on the values of neighbouring pixels.
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Yet adjustments and interpolations are always necessary when disparate data sets are combined.
The genuine collection, freed from interpolations and forgeries, was restored by 17th-century scholarship.
Among the Hattian interpolations in Hittite texts, there are some to which a Hittite translation has been added.
The dramatic quality of the religious service lent itself to elaboration that perhaps first took the form of gestures and mime and later developed into dramatic interpolations on events or figures in the religious service.
The famous Mahaparinibbana Sutta ("Discourse on the Great Final Extinction"—i.e., the Buddha's release from the round of rebirths), one of the oldest texts in the canon (though containing later interpolations), narrates the activities and teachings of the Buddha's last year and describes his death.
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