# evaluate

Pronunciation: say "i-VAL-yoo-ayt" US /ɪ̈ˈvaljəˌweɪt/, UK /ɨˈvaljʊeɪt/

## Verb

1. To examine something carefully and draw conclusions about it; to assess or appraise its quality or value.
   - Simple: To look at something carefully and decide how good, useful, or important it is.
   - _The committee will evaluate every proposal before awarding the grant._
   - _Analysts spent weeks evaluating the company's financial health._
2. In mathematics or computing, to work out the value that an expression stands for or produces.
   - Simple: To find the answer that a math problem or line of code works out to.
   - _Students were asked to evaluate the integral using substitution._
   - _The interpreter evaluates a function's arguments before passing them in._
3. To yield or have a specific value as the result of computation.
   - Simple: To come out as a certain value or answer when worked out.
   - _Under these substitutions, both formulas evaluate to zero._
   - _The conditional expression evaluates to false whenever the list is empty._

## Origin

This word was formed from "evaluation" by dropping part of it (a back-formation).

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/evaluate (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).