Evaluate vs Evaluable - What's the difference?
evaluate | evaluable |
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
Able to be evaluated in a certain way
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As a verb evaluate
is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.As an adjective evaluable is
able to be evaluated in a certain way.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.