Formulate vs Evaluate - What's the difference?
formulate | evaluate |
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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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
In transitive terms the difference between formulate and evaluate
is that formulate is to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression while evaluate is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.formulate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
- Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors'' that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like ''comed'', ''goed'', ''seed'', ''buyed'', ''bringed , etc. frequently used by young children. [...]
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(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.