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Valuation or Evaluation - What's the difference?

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Evaluation is a related term of valuation.



As nouns the difference between valuation and evaluation

is that valuation is an estimation of something's worth while evaluation is an assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.

valuation

Noun

(en noun)
  • An estimation of something's worth.
  • (finance) The process of estimating the market value of a financial asset or liability.
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  • 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

    evaluation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia evaluation) (en noun)
  • An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.
  • (mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
  • (computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.
  • Derived terms

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    See also

    * evaluate * revaluation * valuation