noun
- A message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted.
- usage: "with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in the margins"
- synonyms: insertion
- Mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known. (
- The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts.
- synonyms: interjection, interposition, interpellation
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