Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or process of assessing value or price; an appraisal.
  • noun Assessed value or price.
  • noun An estimation or appreciation of worth, merit, or character.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of valuing.
  • noun Value set upon a thing; estimated worth; value; worth.
  • noun The plot survey comprises the measurement of the stand, or a given portion of it, upon isolated plots not in the form of strips.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement.
  • noun Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An estimation of something's worth.
  • noun finance The process of estimating the market value of a financial asset or liability.
  • noun logic, propositional 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).
  • noun logic, first-order logic A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.
  • noun algebra A measure of size or multiplicity.
  • noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an appraisal of the value of something
  • noun assessed price

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Examples

  • Assume the lower figure of 1.5 million, keeping in mind that this number constitutes only the homeless and not the multi-millions currently living in poverty, who would probably be willing to sell their “chips” (citizenships) if your valuation is accurate, so that the market would essentially remain flooded.

    An Idea only an Economist Could Love, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • I previously had a $3.00 target on the stock, however I have had to revise that projection to $2.50, reflecting a more realistic short term valuation in light of current market conditions.

    unknown title 2011

  • Small economies — Massmart's valuation is bigger than Zimbabwe's GDP of $3.5 billion — could be swamped by capital inflows.

    Catching Africa's Investment Bug Is Proving Contagious Matthew Curtin 2010

  • If your valuation is reasonable, it will probably be accepted.

    My Lilac Bush 2009

  • While I own two of their products, the idea that this company has a 5 plus year trajectory that merits a $590MM valuation is just crazy.

    Why Cisco’s Buying Pure Digital for $590M 2009

  • The gap between authors and owners in valuation are, however, not significant, though authors want a little more than owners do.

    IPSC: daily double--theory Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • If your valuation is reasonable, it will probably be accepted.

    My Lilac Bush 2009

  • The gap between authors and owners in valuation are, however, not significant, though authors want a little more than owners do.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • If your valuation is reasonable, it will probably be accepted.

    My Lilac Bush 2009

  • If your valuation is reasonable, it will probably be accepted.

    My Lilac Bush 2009

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