noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Technical term used in mathematics, statistics, and science for estimating values beyond a known range. Can be used as a noun or with する to mean 'to extrapolate'.
このグラフから将来の傾向を外挿することは難しい。
It is difficult to extrapolate future trends from this graph.
外挿法
We estimated unknown data using an extrapolation method.