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misextrapolate

verb

Etymology

From mis- + extrapolate.

  1. borrowed from interpolātus
  2. prefixed as extrapolate — “extra + interpolate”
  3. prefixed as misextrapolate — “mis + extrapolate”

Definitions

  1. To extrapolate wrongly, not merely with reasonable hypotheses and projections that turn…

    To extrapolate wrongly, not merely with reasonable hypotheses and projections that turn out to be incorrect but furthermore on the basis of preventably flawed assumptions.

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