misinterpolate

Verb

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

1. To misestimate an interpolated data value.
   • 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
   • 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
2. To insert or introduce an incorrect value into the middle of something else.
   • 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
   • 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