0 present participle of extrapolate --
1 to guess or think about what might happen using information that is already known: --
We will discuss the rationale of extrapolating features of neonatal infection to fetal infection, with an emphasis on prognostic factors.
Extrapolating a figure to represent moneys gained over a 5- or 10-year period would thus not have been an accurate representation.
Extrapolating our equation beyond this time span, biomass would theoretically accumulate to within 75% of the mature-forest level after 175 y of regeneration.
Such studies have been conducted mainly in temperate regions, and there is no basis for extrapolating their conclusions to tropical areas.
One of her central claims is that oral historians have heretofore been looking too literally at this material, and perhaps extrapolating too simplistically from it.
Therefore, care has to be taken in extrapolating these results to the normal healthy adult community.
Inflorescences per tree were quantified by counting the inflorescences of a representative part of the tree crown and then extrapolating to the whole crown.
That this vaccine preparation did afford some protection in mice illustrates the potential difficulties in extrapolating findings from one host species to another.
