misinterpolate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To misestimate an interpolated data value.
Example Sentences
- "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,"
- "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."
Etymology
From mis- + interpolate.