I cannot extrapolate what he meant from these notes.
•Can you extrapolate the annual total from the company's sales so far this year?
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
extrapolate — ex‧trap‧o‧late [ɪkˈstræpəleɪt] verb [transitive] formal to separate and examine the facts about something, and to form an opinion based on your knowledge of those facts: • The figures are wildly optimistic, and could only have been extrapolated… … Financial and business terms
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