valuation
Pronunciation: /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/
The English word “valuation” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- An estimation of something's worth.
- The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.
- 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).
- A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.
- A measure of size or multiplicity.
- A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.
Etymology
From Middle French valuation, noun of action from valuer, from Old French valoir.
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