extrapolation

You claim that you actually guessed where that ship was going to be, but you followed the computer's extrapolation instead?

The last three values are those obtained by extrapolation with platinum-rhodium and platinum-iridium couples.

In controversion of this it must be said that the ulterior justification of such ideal extrapolation is not yet feasible.

Even the most favorable extrapolation showed it would take him nineteen years to become master of the world.

I thought my subconscious was just building up this stuff to fill the gaps in what I'd produced from logical extrapolation.