valuation

noun — 6 senses

valuation

noun

/ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology From Middle French valuation, noun of action from valuer, from Old French valoir.

1

An estimation of something's worth.

2

Business, Finance, Insurance The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.

  • 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.1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, page 4
  • Reddit's (RDDT.N) initial public offering is currently between four and five times oversubscribed, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday, making it more likely the social media platform will attain the $6.5 billion valuation it seeks.2024 March 17, Echo Wang, “Exclusive: Reddit's IPO as much as five times oversubscribed, sources say”, in Reuters:
3

Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences 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).

Propositional logic; model theory; propositional logic; model theory

4

Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.

First-order logic; model theory; first-order logic; model theory

5

Algebra, Mathematics, Sciences A measure of size or multiplicity.

6

Mathematics, Measure theory, Sciences A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.

Derived terms
contingent valuation, discrete valuation, discrete valuation ring, evaluation, revaluation, second-gear valuation, transvaluation, valuation function, valuation ring
Related terms
interpretation

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