How to Use interpolation in a Sentence

interpolation

noun

• Copyright law is very much based on the idea of making copies — a sample is a copy, as is an interpolation of a melody.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 19 Apr. 2023
• Next, chaindrop used the Flowframes interpolation tool to increase the FPS from 24 to 48 and then slowed it down to half speed, resulting in a smoother video.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• In a brief glitch, Tidal was only playing the isolated vocals of the interpolation, while the rest of the nearly two minute track was silent.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
• So a part of that, for me, was doing interpolation songs and also leaning in a couple of times to taking pitched songs.
  — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2022
• Owen would love to see the song emulate the chart run of his Mellencamp interpolation.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 5 July 2023
• At the time, when the interpolation concept was still largely untested in country, Owen wasn’t sure how it would be greeted.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• An apt interpolation for a song about claiming what’s yours.
  — Vulture, 9 Dec. 2022
• The interpolation has also been removed from the song’s YouTube lyric video, but still appears on certain streaming versions.
  — Vulture, 3 Aug. 2022
• In all, Vultures 1 has at least two dozen samples and interpolations across 16 tracks, according to the website WhoSampled.com and reviewed by Billboard.
  — Colin Stutz, Billboard, 17 Feb. 2024
• Both Jarcho and Seastone also play Frank, a dumb but scary interpolation of Woyzeck.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• There was plenty more back-and-forth about the Renaissance track and the controversy, which kicked off after the album dropped last week featuring the interpolation.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2022
• From that point on, the Marley sample fades into an echoey interpolation, a spectre of history.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Does Kelis Have any say over sampling and interpolation?
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 29 July 2022
• Maybe another remix, this one with a guest appearance from (or at least a Beyoncé-style interpolation of) '80s funkers Cameo? 5.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2020
• While covers used to be an enormous part of the top 40 landscape, in recent years they’ve mostly been replaced in the culture by songs that rely heavily on big samples and interpolations.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 23 May 2023
• Although Beyoncé’s reps have not yet confirmed the exact reasoning behind the change, the removal of the interpolation is likely linked to Kelis’ disapproval of the use of her song.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022
• An interpolation is not the same as a sample, which involves an artist taking actual audio from an existing song.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• Nunn is also trying to use interpolation to correct blips in the seismology data, where errors can affect frame counts, time stamps, and data records.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2018
• Note the color shading on the map is an interpolation & may not be representative in some locations.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• Motion smoothing, also called motion interpolation, is born out of a discrepancy between the frame rates of films and the frame rates modern TV sets are capable of running.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
• If this interpolation exists merely to inform or remind audiences that Black soldiers flew combat missions in the war, that’s a good enough reason.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• This system frees up space for speeches to be more interesting, as seen in Sheryl Lee Ralph’s musical interpolation of the acceptance-speech form.
  — Vulture, 12 Sep. 2022
• Typically, the more integral the sample or interpolation is to the new song, the more leverage the sample or interpolation rights holders have.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2023
• Isabel Vogt and Eric Larson solved the interpolation problem, a long-standing question about how many random points in high-dimensional space certain types of curves can pass through.
  — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• Well, with Belafonte’s interpolation, which in its varied guises wed acoustic singing with Black spiritual arrangements and the sounds of the islands.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• Not a cover, not a remix, not an interpolation—the original version, holding fast, in all of its booming and extraterrestrial synth glory.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• While there are great potential upsides to these samples and interpolations, there’s a catch: Minaj will have to share a sizable portion of her publishing and master ownership with the rights holders of those older songs.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2023
• Zinc, silver, lead, tin, and indium high grade outliers were constrained during interpolation on a per domain basis.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
• In some ways, such collaboration and interpolation is baked into the function of the app, which allows users to put their own spin on viral content and present it without its original context fairly quickly.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2021
• Some TVs use motion smoothing (or frame interpolation).
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024