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Interpellate vs. Interpolate — What's the Difference?

Interpellate vs. Interpolate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Interpellate and Interpolate

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Interpellate

(obsolete) To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).

Interpolate

Insert (something of a different nature) into something else
Illustrations were interpolated in the text

Interpellate

(philosophy) To address (a person) in a way that presupposes a particular identification of them; to give (a person) an identity (which may or may not be accurate).

Interpolate

Interject (a remark) in a conversation
‘I dare say,’ interpolated her employer

Interpellate

To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business.
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Interpolate

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Interpellate

To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; - generally on the part of a legislative body.

Interpolate

To insert (material) into a text.

Interpellate

Question formally about policy or government business

Interpolate

To insert into a conversation.

Interpolate

To change or falsify (a text) by introducing new or incorrect material.

Interpolate

To estimate a value of (a function or series) between two known values.

Interpolate

To create a continuous function that incorporates (a finite set of data), such as creating a curve that passes through a fixed set of points or a surface through a fixed set of curves.

Interpolate

To introduce estimated values of (pixel data) into a pixel array to improve the quality of an enlarged digital image.

Interpolate

To make insertions or additions.

Interpolate

To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert (possibly spurious) words into a text.
In verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated, probably by some unknown medieval scribe
When interpolating an explanatory gloss, please enclose it in square brackets to make clear that it is interpolated.

Interpolate

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

Interpolate

(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.

Interpolate

To renew; to carry on with intermission.
Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted.

Interpolate

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.
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.

Interpolate

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; to estimate a value at a point intermediate between points of knwon value. Compare extrapolate.

Interpolate

Estimate the value of

Interpolate

Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

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