interpolation: Meaning and Definition of

in•ter•po•la•tion

1. the act or process of interpolating or the state of being interpolated.
2. something interpolated, as a passage introduced into a text.
1. the process of determining the value of a function between two points at which it has prescribed values.
2. a similar process using more than two points at which the function has prescribed values.
3. the process of approximating a given function by using its values at a discrete set of points.