ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Valuation

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Valuation is a noun meaning An estimation of something's worth.

Meaning

An estimation of something's worth.

More Meanings

  1. (finance, insurance) The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.
  2. (algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.
  3. (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.
  4. (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.
  5. (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).

Example Sentences

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.
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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for valuation

Depending on context, synonyms include evaluation, rating.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rating, evaluation, appraisal, appraise, appraiser, evaluative.

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