(transitive, intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into a text.in verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated
(computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.
Joseph F. Ossanna, Nroff/Troff User's manualA macro is invoked in the same way as a request; a control line beginning .xx will interpolate the contents of macro xx.
Larry Wall, , and , , 3rd Edition, 2000, p. 992.In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a LIST.