interpolation

(noun)

noun

1. a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted

- with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told

Similar word(s): insertion

Definition categories: communication, content, message, substance

2. (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known

Definition categories: thought, calculation, computation, figuring, reckoning

3. the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

Similar word(s): interjection, interpellation, interposition

Definition categories: act, break, disruption, gap, interruption

Sentences with interpolation as a noun:

- Bentley wrote a letter […] upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. — De Quincey.