extrapolate
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
General verb
To infer or estimate unknown values by projecting from known data or trends.
One should be cautious in extrapolating these results to other populations.
Business verb
To project the errors found in a sample across the whole population from which it was drawn.
The auditors extrapolated the sample error rate to estimate a likely misstatement of nearly two hundred thousand pounds.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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