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Webster 1913 Edition
Interpolation
In-terˊpo-la′tion
,Noun.
[L.
interpolatio
an alteration made here and there: cf. F. interpolation
.] 1.
The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.
2.
That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious.
Bentley wrote a letter . . . . upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered
interpolations
from a later hand. De Quincey.
3.
(Math.)
The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.
Webster 1828 Edition
Interpolation
INTERPOLA'TION
,Noun.
1.
A spurious word or passage inserted in the genuine writings of an author. I have changed the situation of some of the Latin verses, and made some interpolations.
2.
In mathematics, that branch of analysis, which treats of the methods by which, when a series of quantities succeeding each other, and formed all according to some determinate law, are given, others subject to the same law may be interposed between them.