INTERPOLATE

interpolate, alter, falsify

(verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

interpolate, extrapolate

(verb) estimate the value of

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

interpolate (third-person singular simple present interpolates, present participle interpolating, simple past and past participle interpolated)

(transitive, intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert (possibly spurious) words into a text.

(mathematics) To estimate the value of a function between two points between which it is tabulated.

(computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.

• Joseph F. Ossanna, Nroff/Troff User's manual

Synonyms

• (process fetched data in-line): transclude

Source: Wiktionary

In*ter"po*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interpolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Interpolating.] Etym: [L. interpolatus, p. p. of interpolare to form anew, to interpolate, fr. interpolus, interpolis, falsified, vamped up, polished up; inter between + polire to polish. See Polish, v. t.]

1. To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.] Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.

2. To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author. How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow. The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some think, interpolated by him for that purpose. Pope.

3. (Math.)

Definition: To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition