Verb
evaluate (third-person singular simple present evaluates, present participle evaluating, simple past and past participle evaluated)
- (transitive) To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise.
It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 151:Death is a factor that changes all our views as we are forced to evaluate our worth and what ultimately matters in life.
- (transitive, mathematics, computing) To compute or determine the value of (an expression).
Evaluate this integral.
- (intransitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.
2006, Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 201:Since element (15.1) evaluates to an element of the center in any alternative algebra, (15.1) has to evaluate to a scalar multiple of the identity element of the Cayley-Dickson algebra.
2007, James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 165:In one type of such an integral, the integrand is only the probability density function, and the integral evaluates to a probability, which of course is a scalar.
Translations
to draw conclusions from by examining
to compute or determine the value of
to have or return a given value
Further reading
- “evaluate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “evaluate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “evaluate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.