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Example sentences for "interpolation"

Lexicographically close words:
interplay; interpleader; interpolate; interpolated; interpolating; interpolations; interpolator; interpose; interposed; interposes
  1. This is the only passage of Ramusio's version, so far as I know, that suggests interpolation from a recent author, as distinguished from mere editorial modification.

  2. For the benefit of those not familiar with the method of interpolation we will give in detail the method of finding intermediate columns of the table.

  3. The table is so large, that in the great majority of cases not only exact, but otherwise satisfactory values can be obtained by this method, without any interpolation whatever.

  4. Of course, it may be said that the Offa episode in Beowulf is an interpolation of a later date.

  5. We have no right to assume that the episode is an interpolation merely because such an assumption may suit our theory of the development of Beowulf.

  6. We deny the right of any such interpolation to any one or all the nations of the earth without our consent.

  7. A similar arrangement by the other great powers could not fail to sweep from the ocean the slave trade without the interpolation of any new principle into the maritime code.

  8. An interpolation from the margin, Mitford conj.

  9. This is frequently acknowledged by Scott; what he does not acknowledge is his own occasional interpolation of stanzas.

  10. We also acknowledge (on internal evidence) his interpolation of his own stanzas in Kinmont Willie and Jamie Telfer, where he exalts his chief and ancestor.

  11. The adoration hymn of Vyâsa (which is considered to be an interpolation even by orthodox scholars) is also based upon the same tradition.

  12. The same disregard to exactness which led to these blunders, may have produced the interpolation of this voyage, garbled out of the letters of Vespucci and the accounts of other voyagers.

  13. Schedel, remarks on an interpolation in his chronicle.

  14. Douglas, in his Dorr letter, had announced that he would suffer no interpolation of new issues into the Democratic creed.

  15. On the contrary, they give us a hint that after one Prorsa generation had been produced, the gradual interpolation of a second Prorsa generation may have been facilitated by the existence of the first.

  16. As far as I know, no attempt has yet been made to prove from a general point of view the interpolation of new generations, or the omission of single generations from the annual cycle, with respect to causes and effects.

  17. As the climate gradually became warmer, a period must have arrived when the summer lasted long enough for the interpolation of a second brood.

  18. This theory of an interpolation is easily advanced, and it is drawn so entirely from our ignorance that it can seldom be positively disproved, but it ought surely to be alleged with more convincing reasons than any that are put forward here.

  19. Donaldson seems to think, that because a document is mutilated therefore it is more likely to be interpolated; for interpolation is the result of quite a different series of accidents.

  20. The interpolation hypothesis, as I said, is easily advanced, but the onus probandi must needs lie heavily against it.

  21. Even Ablon proved inconveniently distant, although it was nearer the capital than the edict permitted.

  22. By the method of interpolation we can readily determine the dew-point in the special case under consideration as 90 deg.

  23. Precious" is an interpolation of the Revisers).

  24. The interpolation of a particular sentence was neither suggested nor suspected.

  25. If the editor who made the interpolation might not reasonably suppose that he was only applying expressly to France a sentiment already indicated in terms too plain to be misunderstood?

  26. Nevertheless there are other cases in which we must suppose evolution to have proceeded by the interpolation of characters.

  27. The white rose borne by the Good Mother is a pretty and characteristic interpolation peculiar to flower-loving Provence.

  28. When men interpolate, it is because they believe their interpolation seriously needed.

  29. Paine calls attention to an interpolation introduced into the first American edition without indication of its being an editorial footnote.

  30. William is a late interpolation due to the popularity of the romances.

  31. Meanwhile Birch-Hirschfeld's hypothesis that Gerbert's section of the Conte du Graal is an interpolation between Gautier and Manessier is laid open to grave doubt.

  32. The interpolation occurs neither in the French nor in the Latin text.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interpolation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.