evaluation

See also: évaluation

English

Etymology

From Middle French évaluation. Morphologically evaluate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃən/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

evaluation (countable and uncountable, plural evaluations)

1. An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.

   The result of the semestral evaluation will go towards your final score.

2. (mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
3. (computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.

Derived terms

• evaluational
• function-evaluation routine
• lazy evaluation
• McCarthy evaluation
• minimal evaluation
• misevaluation
• reevaluation
• short-circuit evaluation

 

Related terms

• evaluate

Translations

assessment

• Bulgarian: оценяване (bg) n (ocenjavane), оценка (bg) f (ocenka)
• Catalan: avaluació (ca) f, apreciació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評價／评价 (zh) (píngjià), 评价 (zh) (píngjià)

• Danish: evaluering c, vurdering c
• Dutch: beoordeling (nl) f, evaluatie (nl) f
• Finnish: arviointi (fi), evaluointi (fi)
• French: évaluation (fr) f
• German: Beurteilung (de) f
• Hungarian: értékelés (hu)
• Indonesian: evaluasi (id)
• Italian: valutazione (it) f
• Japanese: 評価 (ja) (ひょうか, hyōka)
• Latgalian: īviertiejums
• Latin: taxātiō f
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• Maltese: evalwazzjoni f
• Maori: arotakenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: evaluering (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: evaluering f

• Persian: ارزیابی (fa) (arzyâbi), ارزشیابی (fa) (arzešyâbi), سنجش (fa) (sanješ)
• Polish: ocena (pl) f
• Portuguese: avaliação (pt) f
• Russian: оце́нка (ru) f (océnka), оце́нивание (ru) n (océnivanije)
• Slovene: ocena (sl) f, ovrednotenje n
• Spanish: evaluación (es) f
• Swedish: bedömning (sv) c, utvärdering (sv) c
• Turkish: değerlendirme (tr)

completion of a mathematic operation

• Bulgarian: изчисление (bg) n (izčislenie)
• Danish: bedømmelse c
• Finnish: evaluaatio
• Hungarian: kiértékelés (hu)
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• Polish: wykonanie (pl) n, realizacja (pl) f
• Tagalog: paghahalga

substitution of a variable with its value

• Finnish: evaluaatio
• Hungarian: kiértékelés (hu)
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• Persian: ارزیابی (fa) (arzyâbi)
• Polish: ewaluacja (pl) f, wartościowanie n

See also

• revaluation
• valuation