misinterpolate

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verb

To misestimate an interpolated data value.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

verbmisinterpolate (third-person singular simple present misinterpolates, present participle misinterpolating, simple past and past participle misinterpolated)

present singular third person misinterpolates · participle present misinterpolating · participle past misinterpolated · past misinterpolated

  1. To misestimate an interpolated data value.

    A bad spatial sampling of the field could in this case miss the focal minimum and misinterpolate the field.

    2009, Christoph M. Michel, Thomas Koenig, Daniel Brandeis, Electrical Neuroimaging, page 80
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    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.

    1975, Measurements of Physical Phenomena Related to Power Plant Waste Heat Dischares, Lake Michigan, 1973 and 1974, page 215

    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,

    2016 May, Sumit Verma, Shiguang Guo, Kurt J Marfurt, “Data conditioning of legacy seismic using migration-driven 5D interpolation”, in Interpretation, volume 4, number 2
  2. To insert or introduce an incorrect value into the middle of something else.

    So much was crowded into the lessons that I would inadvertently misinterpolate the lindy with the fox-trot, the rhumba with the waltz.

    2003, John Tytell ·, Reading New York, page 98
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    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.

    1999, Wim van Mierlo, Genitricksling Joyce, page 109

    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.

    2006, Cambridge Anthropology - Volume 25, Issue 3, page 73

    Due to invisible features of the United States' electrical grid and F.C.C. monitored broadcasting features, background noise on this tape would identify the manipulation that had occurred, but not before two or more generously compensated video evidence experts had misinterpolated their perception.

    2012, Ransom Uriah, The dragon of unwise children

Origin

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