evaluate

To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise.

Verb

  1. To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise.
    • It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
    • Death is a factor that changes all our views as we are forced to evaluate our worth and what ultimately matters in life. - 2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 151:

    Synonyms: assess esteem rate appraise apprise apprize evaluate judge price prize valuate value weigh worthen

  2. To compute or determine the value of (an expression).
    • Evaluate this integral.
  3. To return or have a specific value.
    • 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. - 2006, Lev Sabinin, Larissa...
    • 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. - 2007, James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory,...

Origin

Back-formation from evaluation.

Forms

evaluates evaluating evaluated

Synonyms

weigh

Derived

coevaluate evaluable evaluatable evaluatee evaluative evaluator evaluatory misevaluate overevaluate reevaluate re-evaluate self-evaluate underevaluate unevaluated