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.