valuation

English

/ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/

noun
Definitions
  • An estimation of something's worth.
  • (finance) The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.
  • (logic) 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) 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) A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.

Etymology

Derived from Middle French valuation derived from Old French valoir.

Origin

Old French

valoir

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