misinterpolate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To misestimate an interpolated data value.

   • These codes invariably misinterpolated the temperature values between two somewhat separated data transects, but did reasonably well in fitting the data close to the transects themselves.
   • A bad spatial sampling of the field could in this case miss the focal minimum and misinterpolate the field.
   • Although normal-moveout-corrected, common-midpoint-based 5D interpolation does an excellent job of amplitude balancing and the suppression of acquisition footprint, it appears to misinterpolate undercorrected diffractions,
2. 2

   To insert or introduce an incorrect value into the middle of something else.

   • Indeed there are numerous instances during the composition of Finnegans Wake where the hapless typists, confused by Joyce's conventions, misinterpolated additions into the text.
   • So much was crowded into the lessons that I would inadvertently misinterpolate the lindy with the fox-trot, the rhumba with the waltz.
   • There are repetitions and nonsequiturs, words missed or misinterpolated, place names misspelt, both grammar and typing falter, and there was a mastodon with multiple anuses.

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