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evaluates

evaluates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of evaluate.

Meaning of 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.
  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

Questions about evaluates

What is evaluates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Evaluates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of evaluate.

Words near evaluates in the dictionary

  1. evaluatable
  2. evaluate
  3. evaluated
  4. evaluatee
  5. evaluatees
  6. evaluates
  7. evaluating
  8. evaluation
  9. evaluational
  10. evaluations
  11. evaluative

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