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evaluate

verb
/ɨˈvaljʊeɪt/UK/ɪ̈ˈvaljəˌweɪt/US

Etymology

Back-formation from evaluation.

Definitions

  1. To draw conclusions from examining

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

    • It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
    • Death is a factor that changes all our views as we are forced to evaluate our worth and what ultimately matters in life.

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

    • Evaluate this integral.

  3. 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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

coevaluate, evaluable, evaluatable, evaluatee, evaluative, evaluator, evaluatory, misevaluate, overevaluate, reevaluate, re-evaluate, self-evaluate, underevaluate, unevaluated

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at evaluate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at evaluate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at evaluate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA