Definition of "extrapolating" []

• Present participle of extrapolate. (verb)

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• "By extrapolating from the census findings, the team worked out the odds of a star being orbited by smaller planets than those they could detect."
• "The fiction is based on extrapolating from the known facts of today's physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc."
• "Clearly there are great problems in extrapolating anything from this and I do not mean to but the difference is striking."