Verb

(evaluat)

to draw conclusions from examining; to assess

It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.

(mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression)

Evaluate this polynomial.

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

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 9780387708720), 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.

Verb

(lb) To be aware of the meaning of.

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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I understand not what you mean by this.

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To believe, based on information.

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

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To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.

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:In this sense, the word is usually used in the past participle:

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*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.

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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

To stand under; to support.

:(Shakespeare)