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Bold prophecies have given way to timorous extrapolations.
The analysis was based on historical knowledge and extrapolation from fragmentary scraps of information.
Straight-line extrapolation from the past into the future is a poor guide for strategic planning.

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extrapolation | Business English

extrapolation
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ɪkˌstræpəˈleɪʃən/us
the process of using existing information to discover what is likely to happen or be true in the future:
extrapolation of sthThe bank expects inflation to overshoot target in two years, but this is only an extrapolation of past trends.
extrapolation from sthExtrapolation from the past into the future is a poor guide for strategic business planning.

Examples of extrapolation

extrapolation
A current controversy surrounds the extrapolation of the results of treating the young to treating the elderly (19;30).
After all, the extrapolation of general features from specific instances is not a straightforward exercise.
As with all expanded lectures, it suffers from unevenness of extrapolation, or even over-elaboration.
A revised and internally consistent thermodynamic model for the interpolation and extrapolation of liquid-solid equilibria in magmatic systems at elevated temperatures and pressures.
Incidence estimates for the whole country are produced by extrapolation of the cases reported.
The agent's use of extrapolation gives rise to persistent forecast errors.
However, care should be taken with extrapolation of results from homogeneous models to the human field, where heterogeneity may require a complex model.
The graphs are plotted only over the ranges of counts/biomass/cover observed for that relationship, with no extrapolation.
By extrapolation of the data reported here, intra-stadial transmission may provide a means of supporting amplification and persistence of highly virulent tick-borne viruses.
At the boundary points of this cubic set, we make the following two assumptions for extrapolation.
The second world war saw the famous work on prediction for antiaircraft gunfire, with implications for extrapolation, interpolation and smoothing more generally.
To biologists, who like the reviewer have witnessed the violent changes in such extrapolations, this hardly comes as a great surprise.
This has been interpreted as the result of motion extrapolation.
These simulations have shown also that the uncertainty inherent in extrapolation to sites with different rainfall regimes and soils, can be reduced by modelling.
Clearly, all three methods involve different assumptions, and all three methods require extrapolation to reach the same initial and final states.
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