Determinate vs Evaluate - What's the difference?
determinate | evaluate |
Distinct, clearly defined.
* Dryden
Fixed, set, unvarying.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
(biology) Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed.
conclusive; decisive; positive
* Bible, Acts ii. 23
(obsolete) Determined or resolved upon.
* Shakespeare
Of determined purpose; resolute.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(philosophy) A single state of a particular determinable attribute.
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(obsolete) To bring to an end; to determine.
* Shakespeare
to draw conclusions from examining; to assess
(mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression)
To return or have a specific value.
* 2006 , Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications , CRC Press (ISBN 9780824726690), page 201
* 2007 , James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9780387708720), page 165
As verbs the difference between determinate and evaluate
is that determinate is to bring to an end; to determine while evaluate is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.As an adjective determinate
is distinct, clearly defined.As a noun determinate
is a single state of a particular determinable attribute.determinate
English
Adjective
(-)- Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.
- hym have ye taken by the hondes of unrightewes persones, after he was delivered by the determinat counsell and foreknowledge of God, and have crucified and slayne hym [...].
- The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
- My determinate voyage.
- More determinate to do than skillful how to do.
Antonyms
* (limited) indeterminate, nondeterminate * (biology) indeterminateDerived terms
* determinatenessNoun
(en noun)Verb
(determinat)- The sly, slow hours shall not determinate / The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
evaluate
English
Verb
(evaluat)- It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
- Evaluate this polynomial.
- 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.