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evaluator

evaluator is the agent noun 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

Forms of evaluator

pluralevaluators

Origin of evaluator

From evaluate + -or.

Questions about evaluator

What is evaluator the agent noun of?
Evaluator is the agent noun of evaluate.

Words near evaluator in the dictionary

  1. evaluativeness
  2. evaluativism
  3. evaluativist
  4. evaluativists
  5. evaluativity
  6. evaluator
  7. evaluators
  8. evaluatory
  9. evaluee
  10. evaluees
  11. Evalyn

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