What's the difference between alter and interpolate?

Alter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
  • (v. t.) To agitate; to affect mentally.
  • (v. t.) To geld.
  • (v. i.) To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (2) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (3) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (4) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
  • (5) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
  • (6) Incubation with IFN alpha or IFN gamma for 24 h resulted in only modest cytokinetic alterations, and they did not modify the effects of FUra.
  • (7) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
  • (8) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (9) Neither spermidine nor spermine (0.5 mM) significantly altered [Ca2+]i.
  • (10) In addition to the changes associated with blood group A, we also found a decrease in sugar content, alterations in other antigens, and changes in the levels of several glycosyltransferases in cancerous tissues.
  • (11) When the concentration of thrombin or fibrinogen was altered systematically, mu T and mup were found to mirror each other except when the fibrinogen concentration was increased at low thrombin concentrations.
  • (12) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
  • (13) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
  • (14) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
  • (15) However, survival was closely related to the severity of the illness at the time of randomization and was not altered by shunting.
  • (16) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
  • (17) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (18) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
  • (19) Corticosterone (4 x 10(-5) M) did not alter the stimulation-evoked 3H-overflow at 1-30 Hz.
  • (20) The results show that the presence of histones does not alter the bimodal DNA binding process.

Interpolate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To renew; to carry on with intermission.
  • (v. t.) To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author.
  • (v. t.) To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (2) V4-V5-the interpolated value between 40 and 50 is indicated-i.e.
  • (3) Our analysis showed that the interpolation errors are proportional to the curvature of the dose distribution and are relatively high in regions on either side of, but not including, the steepest part of the penumbra.
  • (4) Our results show that although kriging is a statistically optimal method, it is not markedly better than simpler interpolation algorithms, though it is considerably more complex to use.
  • (5) A formal notion of relatability is defined, specifying which physically given edges leading into discontinuities can be connected to others by interpolated edges.
  • (6) The retrospective, prospective and "Status Quo" methods were used; age was recorded as the recalled date, the mid-interval interpolated date and the age at examination; and called "real" age (RA), "interval" age (IA) and "visit" age (VA).
  • (7) We have compared three interpolation methods (surface splines, spherical splines and tridimensional interpolation functions).
  • (8) Zones of nonreset due to interference, reset, interpolation and sinus echoes were defined by noting the timing of the first response after A2.
  • (9) In examining two different sets of experiments, it is proposed that staggered joint interpolation is the underlying planning strategy.
  • (10) The dose of cold air expressed as the level of ventilation causing a 20% change in FEV1 (PD20) was interpolated from individual dose-response curves.
  • (11) Quantitation of specific ELISA antibody was achieved by interpolation from a calibation curve.
  • (12) The two organisations signed a 10-year agreement in 2011 to provide funds to combat match-fixing but Interpol’s secretary general, Jürgen Stock, said the decision to freeze cooperation had been made “in light of the current context” surrounding Fifa.
  • (13) Computer simulations, phantom measurements, and clinical studies were used in evaluating the SSP and noise characteristics of two new section-interpolation algorithms.
  • (14) In a third experiment every second image was deleted and the rest of the images were 'disordered', realigned and the missing planes reconstructed by interpolation.
  • (15) Interpol said that in the case of Flight MH370: "No checks of the stolen Austrian and Italian passports were made by any country between the time they were entered into Interpol's database and the departure of the flight."
  • (16) As the subjects in the present study were not able to produce a vowel at target intensities and frequencies, the data were interpolated to 65 dB (A) intensity level for comparison purposes.
  • (17) On Thursday, the Russian office of Interpol requested an international search for Mikhail Khodorkovsky , a former oligarch and Putin critic who fled to Switzerland after he was released from prison on a presidential pardon in 2013.
  • (18) There was considerable confusion over the warrant, which a German government spokesman said on Monday came via Interpol’s “red notice” system, though both Mansour and Interpol said no such red notice exists against his name.
  • (19) The content of Met-enk in other discrete brain areas can be quantified by interpolation of the OD determined by autoradiography in the standard curve.
  • (20) Two interpolative background subtraction methods used in scintigraphy are tested using both phantom and clinical data.