evaluate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from evaluation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɨˈvaljʊeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪ̈ˈvaljəˌweɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: eval‧u‧ate

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.

   • 2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 151:

     Death is a factor that changes all our views as we are forced to evaluate our worth and what ultimately matters in life.

2. (transitive, mathematics, computing) To compute or determine the value of (an expression).

   Evaluate this integral.

3. (intransitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.
   • 2006, Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 201:

     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.

   • 2007, James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 165:

     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.

Derived terms

• evaluatee
• evaluator
• reevaluate
• self-evaluate

 

Translations

to draw conclusions from by examining

• Bulgarian: оценявам (bg) (ocenjavam)
• Catalan: avaluar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評價／评价 (zh) (píngjià)

• Czech: ohodnotit
• Danish: evaluere
• Estonian: hindama
• Finnish: arvioida (fi), evaluoida (fi)
• French: évaluer (fr)
• German: evaluieren (de), auswerten (de)
• Gothic: 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (dōmjan)
• Greek: αξιολογώ (el) (axiologó), εκτιμώ (el) (ektimó)
• Hungarian: értékel (hu), kiértékel (hu)
• Ido: evaluar (io)
• Irish: luacháil
• Italian: valutare (it)
• Japanese: 評する (ja) (hyō-suru)
• Korean: 평가하다 (ko) (pyeongga-hada)
• Latgalian: īvērtēt
• Maori: aromātai
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: аклаш (aklaš)

• Polish: oceniać (pl) impf, ocenić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: avaliar (pt)
• Russian: оце́нивать (ru) impf (océnivatʹ), оцени́ть (ru) pf (ocenítʹ), сделать вывод pf (sdelatʹ vyvod)
• Spanish: evaluar (es)
• Swedish: evaluera (sv)
• Tagalog: halgahan
• Turkish: değerlendirmek (tr)

to compute or determine the value of

• Catalan: avaluar (ca)
• Finnish: laskea (fi)
• German: berechnen (de)
• Greek: αξιολογώ (el) (axiologó)
• Hungarian: kiértékel (hu)
• Ido: evaluar (io)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: аклаш (aklaš)

• Polish: obliczyć (pl) pf, zwartościować pf
• Russian: вычислить (ru) pf (vyčislitʹ)
• Swedish: utvärdera (sv)

to have or return a given value

• German: ergeben (de)

References

• Evaluation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “evaluate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “evaluate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “evaluate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /evaˈluate/

Verb

evaluate

1. adverbial present passive participle of evaluar

Spanish

Verb

evaluate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of evaluar combined with te