Associations to the word «Valuation»

Wiktionary

VALUATION, noun. An estimation of something's worth.
VALUATION, noun. (finance) The process of estimating the market value of a financial asset or liability.
VALUATION, noun. (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).
VALUATION, noun. (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.
VALUATION, noun. (algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.
VALUATION, 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.
VALUATION FUNCTION, noun. (logic) A function which assigns a truth value to every well-formed formula, which is identical to the model's interpretation function when applied to atomic propositions, and which otherwise assigns a truth value recursively depending on the formula's top logical connective and the truth values of the subformulae surrounding that logical connective.

Dictionary definition

VALUATION, noun. An appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship".
VALUATION, noun. Assessed price; "the valuation of this property is much too high".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats