interpolation
Other forms: interpolations
An interpolation is an interruption or an addition inserted into something spoken or written. If you’re telling someone about the wild day you had, and your best friend keeps interrupting you to add details, that’s interpolation.
Notice how interpolation looks a lot like interruption and interjection? It means something very similar. If you tell a story and then add some new parts, those are interpolations. If someone else adds new parts as you’re telling the story, that’s interpolation, too. Many ancient books have had new interpolations added every time they were printed. All interpolations add something to the original.
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the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interruptssynonyms: interjection, interpellation, interposition
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a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted“with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told”synonyms: insertion
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(mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known
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Mark Larrimore has written a biography of a book. This book is not just any book, but one of the most controversial and perplexing in history, the Book of Job. The Book of Job puzzles and troubles nearly all who read it, with what it seems to say about justice and suffering being so separate and opposed to the solace readers find in other parts of the Bible. Larrimore's book is about the reception the book has received throughout history and the interpretations it has received. Joan Acocella of the New Yorker profiles Larrimore's book and is a good introduction to wrestling with the Book of Job. Is there justice in the Book of Job? The New Yorker, December 16, 2013
This first book of the series introduces a twelve-year-old orphan whose last name reminds him of all the unsuccessful placements with foster families, until he is chosen by a mysterious couple.