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interpolation
竄改,添寫,插補
In·ter·po·la·tion n.
1. The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.
2. That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious.
Bentley wrote a letter . . . . upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. --De Quincey.
3. Math. The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.
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interpolation
n 1: a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or
inserted; "with the help of his friend's interpolations
his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in
the margins" [syn: insertion]
2: (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between
the values already known
3: the action of interjecting or interposing an action or
remark that interrupts [syn: interjection, interposition,
interpellation]