Definition of "evaluate"

evaluate

/ɨˈvaljʊeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present evaluates, present participle evaluating, simple past and past participle evaluated
1. (transitive) To draw conclusions from examining; to assess.
  Quotations
  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, page 151
2. (transitive, mathematics, computing) To compute or determine the value of (an expression).
3. (intransitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.
  Quotations
  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, 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, page 165

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