A message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted:
— With the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told.

synonym: insertion.

Roget 41: mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion^†; commixion^†, intermixture, alloyage^†, matrimony; junction etc. 43; combination etc. 48; miscegenation.    impregnation; infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion; infiltration; seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding; interpolation; etc. 228 adulteration, sophistication.    [Thing mixed] tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon.    [Compound resulting from mixture] alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow^†, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid [Lat.], miscellany, ambigu^†, medley, mess, hotchpot^†, pasticcio^†, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble etc. (disorder) 59; salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum [Lat.], gallimaufry, olla-podrida^†, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic etc. (variegation) 440.    half-blood, half-caste.    mulatto; terceron^†, quarteron^†, quinteron^† &c.; quadroon, octoroon; griffo^†, zambo^†; cafuzo^†; Eurasian; fustee^†, fustie^†; griffe, ladino^†, marabou, mestee^†, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule [Lat.]; catalo^†; cross, hybrid, mongrel.    ... show more

Roget 85: numeration; numbering etc. v.; pagination; tale, recension^†, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation^†; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism^†, rhabdology^†, dactylonomy^†; measurement etc. 466; statistics.    arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry, fluxions^†; differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus; calculus of differences.    [Statistics] dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation; account etc. (list) 86.    [Operations] notation, , addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration.    [Instruments] abacus, logometer^†, slide rule, slipstick [Coll.], tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan^†; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator, computer; [people who calculate] arithmetician, calculator, abacist^†, algebraist, mathematician; statistician, geometer; programmer; accountant, auditor.    ... show more

Polish: wstawka

mathematics Calculation of the value of a function between the values already known.

Dutch: interpolatie
Polish: interpolacja, interpolacja wielomianowa

The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts.

synonyms: interjection, interpellation, interposition.

Roget 228: interposition, interjacence^†, intercurrence^†, intervenience^†, interlocation^†, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation.    [interposition at a fine-grained level] interpenetration; permeation; infiltration.    [interposition by one person in another's affairs, at the intervenor's initiative] intervention, interference; intrusion, obtrusion; insinuation.    insertion etc. 300; dovetailing; embolism.    intermediary, intermedium^†; go between, bodkin^†, intruder, interloper; parenthesis, episode, flyleaf.    partition, septum, diaphragm; midriff; dissepiment^†; party wall, panel, room divider.    halfway house.    ... show more

Dutch: interruptie