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interpolator|ɪnˈtɜːpəleɪtə(r)|
[a. L. interpolātor, agent-n. f. interpolāre to interpolate. Cf. F. interpolateur (1671 in Godef.).]
1. One who interpolates.
1659Pearson Creed (1839) 243 What the interpolator of Gregory Nyssen's Homily produceth, he confesseth taken from apocryphal writings. 1699Bentley Phal. 463 The Interpolator borrow'd it, and clapt it in here. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. iii. 259 It was denominated by Nennius, or his interpolator, Provincia Lodonesie. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. App. 528 An interpolator would surely have taken care to insert the more famous stories.
2. A mechanical contrivance for securing correct retransmission from a submarine cable of any consecutive letter-elements having the same sign.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 226/2 The special form of curb sender mentioned, termed the ‘Interpolator’. 1958Economist 1 Nov. 425 (Advt.), The Interpolator is the essential part of the mechanism used to re-form signals automatically at the end of their journey through a long cable, before they are sent into another.
3. Engin. A device or apparatus which, when fed with a set of datum points defining a curve, produces a continuous output for guiding a tool over the curve.
1953IRE Trans. Industr. Electronics I. 29 The interpolator output provides a continuous angular rotation whose instantaneous angular position represents the radius vector of the machine tool's cutter locus. 1961S. Fifer Analogue Computation IV. xxx. 1279 The function of the analogue interpolator is to compute a continuous curve from the discrete set of digital information and to position a mechanical lathe accordingly. 1973tr. W. Simon's Numerical Control Machine Tools ii. 43 The cost of the control equipment located on the machine tool itself is considerably reduced, since the machine no longer has its own interpolator. |