evaluation
Pluralevaluations
- 1A careful judgment of how good, useful, or successful someone or something is.
Like a report card that tells you how well you did.
Her manager wrote a positive evaluation after her first year at the company.
The coach shared his evaluation of how the team played on Saturday.
Similarassessment, appraisal, review, analysis, judgment
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- 2Figuring out the value of a variable or an expression in math.
Like solving a math problem to find the final answer.
The evaluation of x plus three gives seven when x is four.
In the program, evaluation of the formula returned the wrong number.
Similarcomputation
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- 3The finished result you get after carrying out a math operation.
Like finishing a sum to reach one final number.
The evaluation of two times five gives ten.
After the final step, the evaluation came out to zero.
Similarcalculation, computation
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Origin
It comes from the Middle French word évaluation. It is made from evaluate plus -ion.