evaluating

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.

   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