VALUATION

evaluation, valuation, rating

(noun) an appraisal of the value of something; “he set a high valuation on friendship”

valuation

(noun) assessed price; “the valuation of this property is much too high”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

valuation (countable and uncountable, plural valuations)

An estimation of something's worth.

(finance, insurance) The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.

(logic, propositional logic, model theory) An assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables (obtained through the recursive application of truth-valued functions corresponding to the logical connectives making up those formulas).

(logic, first-order logic, model theory) A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.

(algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.

(measure theory, domain theory) A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.

Source: Wiktionary


Val`u*a"tion, n.

1. The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.

2. Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation. Since of your lives you set So slight a valuation. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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