interpolate

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To get around that issue, the BEA said that it will average September and November numbers to interpolate the October missing data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Is there a song in your mind that’s too sacred to sample or interpolate?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

This ability to interpolate also leads to highly accurate scene reconstructions when combined with multibounce lidar, Klinghoffer says.

From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2024

As Swain explained, “we don’t have thermometers covering every square inch of the Earth,” so scientific groups use computer models to interpolate between data points, generating what is called a reanalysis.

From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2023

Whatever number of motions we may be able to interpolate, and whether they be real or imaginary, we shall still find, at the end of the series, a motion antecedent and a colour consequent.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart