Impute

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

"The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness."

2.VerbTo ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

3.VerbTo take into account.

4.VerbTo attribute or credit to.

"People impute great cleverness to cats."

5.VerbTo replace missing data with substituted values.

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