misinterpolate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ interpolate

Verb

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

1. To misestimate an interpolated data value.
   • 1975, Measurements of Physical Phenomena Related to Power Plant Waste Heat Dischares, Lake Michigan, 1973 and 1974, page 215:

     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.

   • 2009, Christoph M. Michel, Thomas Koenig, Daniel Brandeis, Electrical Neuroimaging, page 80:

     A bad spatial sampling of the field could in this case miss the focal minimum and misinterpolate the field.

   • 2016 May, Sumit Verma, Shiguang Guo, Kurt J Marfurt, “Data conditioning of legacy seismic using migration-driven 5D interpolation”, in Interpretation, volume 4, number 2:

     Although normal-moveout-corrected, common-midpoint-based 5D interpolation does an excellent job of amplitude balancing and the suppression of acquisition footprint, it appears to misinterpolate undercorrected diffractions,

2. To insert or introduce an incorrect value into the middle of something else.
   • 1999, Wim van Mierlo, Genitricksling Joyce, page 109:

     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.

   • 2003, John Tytell ·, Reading New York, page 98:

     So much was crowded into the lessons that I would inadvertently misinterpolate the lindy with the fox-trot, the rhumba with the waltz.

   • 2006, Cambridge Anthropology - Volume 25, Issue 3, page 73:

     There are repetitions and nonsequiturs, words missed or misinterpolated, place names misspelt, both grammar and typing falter, and there was a mastodon with multiple anuses.

   • 2012, Ransom Uriah, The dragon of unwise children:

     Due to invisible features of the United States' electrical grid and F.C.C. monitored broadcasting features, background noise on this tape would identify the manipulation that had occurred, but not before two or more generously compensated video evidence experts had misinterpolated their perception.