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evaluate

verb/ɪˈvæl.juˌeɪt/

What It Means

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

To compute or determine the value of (an expression).

To return or have a specific value.

It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.

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Evaluate in Context

“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, page 165

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