Extrapolation [noun]

Improving these chains of extrapolation is a call and response between data generated by new generations of sensors and the software models that help us understand them.

“On the sun we have some photos, a few extrapolations, and then there’s a lot of guesswork,” Dan Seaton said to PopSci earlier this year.

You claim that you actually guessed where that ship was going to be, but you followed the computer's extrapolation instead?

The last three values are those obtained by extrapolation with platinum-rhodium and platinum-iridium couples.

In controversion of this it must be said that the ulterior justification of such ideal extrapolation is not yet feasible.

Even the most favorable extrapolation showed it would take him nineteen years to become master of the world.

I thought my subconscious was just building up this stuff to fill the gaps in what I'd produced from logical extrapolation.

Abolish, now, one of the percipients, and the interpolation changes into 'extrapolation.'

Abolish, now, one of the percipients, and the interpolation changes into ‘extrapolation.’

Even when he gets a real flash, he piles on a lot of intuitive extrapolation.