evaluate

Verb

evaluate (third-person singular simple present evaluates, present participle evaluating, simple past and past participle evaluated)

1. (transitive) 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, judge, price, prize, valuate

2. (transitive) To compute or determine the value of (an expression).
   • Evaluate this integral.
3. (intransitive) 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 Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 201
   • 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, Computations, and Applications in Statistics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 165