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the extrapolations
noun
A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
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"Some of the extrapolations from animal experiments are frankly silly.
All the extrapolations from this data - about shopping habits and brand loyalty - would be processed by the brands.
The critic Greg Tate once wrote that Rammellzee's "formulations on the juncture between black and Western sign systems make the extrapolations" of academics like Houston A. Baker Jr. and Henry Louis Gates Jr. "seem elementary by comparison".
But the judge ruled that because of the array of problems in the audit, "it is difficult to trust any of the extrapolations made by the city defendants comparing the performance of job and income support centers, or assessing the performance of job centers over time".
The omission of caveats and subjunctives; the extrapolations from thin and dated intelligence; the infamously misrepresented "45-minute" claim; the blinkered misreading of crucial evidence on Iraq's nuclear programme: the whole shoddy repertoire of mistakes and techniques that made a hunch about Saddam Hussein seem urgent is painfully well documented.
Finally the extrapolations and limits of the model are discussed.
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An important consideration in extrapolating below the observed data is the extent of the extrapolation.
"I kind of made the extrapolation".
Dr. Hauri acknowledged that the extrapolation was less than ironclad.
The extrapolation is that he wanted to have a life of ease.
Do you think the extrapolation of the maximum tree height in The New York Times article is reliable?
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