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Scrutiny vs Valuation - What's the difference?

scrutiny | valuation |

As nouns the difference between scrutiny and valuation

is that scrutiny is intense study of someone or something while valuation is an estimation of something's worth.

As a verb scrutiny

is (obsolete|rare) to scrutinize.

scrutiny

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Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(scrutinies)
  • Intense study of someone or something.
  • * Milton
  • Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view / And narrower scrutiny .
  • Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
  • An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
  • A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
  • An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
  • Synonyms

    * examination * exploration * going-over (informal) * inquiry * inspection * investigation * perusal * probe * scan * survey * study

    Verb

  • (obsolete, rare) To scrutinize.
  • valuation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An estimation of something's worth.
  • (finance) The process of estimating the market value of a financial asset or liability.
  • * 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, page 4:
  • The tax assessor put them in fourteen valuation groups ranging from one two-story brick house and two one-and-a-half-story houses to the largest groups of eighteen two-story houses and twenty-four one-story bungalows.
  • (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.
  • See also

    * (logic) interpretation