use of evaluate as a term

[technologist]

I have been reviewing vocabulary lately for c++.I have found most of what I needed but not so much with "evaluate". Is this term reserved for reducing an expression to a value?

[helios]

Yes.

[technologist]

thx

[JLBorges]

Evaluation of an expression includes both (optional) value computation and (optional) side effect.

Evaluations

There are two kinds of evaluations performed by the compiler for each expression or subexpression (both of which are optional):

value computation: calculation of the value that is returned by the expression. ...

side effect: access (read or write) to an object designated by a volatile glvalue, modification (writing) to an object, calling a library I/O function, or calling a function that does any of those operations.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order