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Interpolation \In*ter`po*la"tion\, n. [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.
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2. That which is introduced or inserted, especially something
foreign or spurious.
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Bentley wrote a letter . . . . upon the scriptural
glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he
considered interpolations from a later hand. --De
Quincey.
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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.
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