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Valuation vs Validation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between valuation and validation

is that valuation is an estimation of something's worth while validation is the act of validating something.

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

    validation

    English

    Noun

  • The act of validating something.
  • Something, such as a certificate, that validates something; attestation, authentication, confirmation, proof or verification.
  • The process whereby others confirm the validity of one's emotions.