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extrapolational

extrapolational adjective: relating to or involving extrapolation.

Adjective

extrapolational (comparative more extrapolational, superlative most extrapolational)

  1. Relating to or involving extrapolation.
    • [Phonemes] were at some point even considered to be the basic building blocks of language, somewhat comparable to the atoms of physics. Nowhere else can this extrapolational strategy better be observed than in the American branch of structural linguistics in its development of morphemics and the...1992 Summer, E. M. Uhlenbeck, “General Linguistics and the Study of Morphological Processes”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 31, number 1, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 1–2

Forms of extrapolational

comparativemore extrapolational
superlativemost extrapolational

Origin of extrapolational

From extrapolation + -al.

Questions about extrapolational

What does extrapolational mean?
Extrapolational means relating to or involving extrapolation.
What part of speech is extrapolational?
Extrapolational is an adjective.

Words near extrapolational in the dictionary

  1. extrapolate
  2. extrapolated
  3. extrapolates
  4. extrapolating
  5. extrapolation
  6. extrapolational
  7. extrapolations
  8. extrapolative
  9. extrapolatively
  10. extrapolator
  11. extrapolators

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