#11 : interpolation : in-tur-puh-LEY-shuhn : noun

1. The act or process of introducing something additional or extraneous between other parts
2. Something interpolated, as a passage introduced into a text.
3. Mathematics. A. The process of determining the value of a function between two points at which is has prescribed values. B. A similar process using more than two points at which the function has prescribed values. C. The process of approximating a given function by using its values at a discrete set of points.


This is from a ma-HOO-sive electronics text book that I was given recently. I have no idea what it's showing because the book is from 1976 so it's all out of date... oh well.