valuation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

valuation (countable and uncountable, plural valuations)

1. An estimation of something's worth.
2. (finance, insurance) The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.
   • 1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, page 4:

     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.

   • 2024 March 17, Echo Wang, “Exclusive: Reddit's IPO as much as five times oversubscribed, sources say”, in Reuters‎^[1]:

     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.

3. (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).
4. (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.
5. (algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.
6. (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.

Derived terms

• contingent valuation
• discrete valuation
• discrete valuation ring
• evaluation
• revaluation
• second-gear valuation
• transvaluation
• valuation function
• valuation ring

 

Translations

estimation of something's worth

• Bulgarian: оценка (bg) f (ocenka)
• Danish: vurdering c
• Finnish: arviointi (fi)
• Georgian: შეფასება (šepaseba), ფასი (pasi)
• Hungarian: (act) értékbecslés (hu), becslés (hu), felbecslés, értékelés (hu), (result) becsérték (hu), becsült érték
• Indonesian: valuasi
• Maori: wāriutanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: verdivurdering m or f

  Nynorsk: verdivurdering f

• Portuguese: valoração f
• Spanish: valuación (es) f, valoración (es) f

process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability

• Finnish: arvonmääritys, valuaatio

See also

• (logic): interpretation