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eval

/ˈiːvəl/US/ˈiː.væl/

eval is the abbreviation of evaluation.

Meaning of evaluation

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.
    Synonyms:
    appraisal
  2. A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
  3. Determination of the value of a variable or expression.

Verb

eval (third-person singular simple present evals, present participle (US) evaling or (UK) evalling, simple past and past participle (US) evaled or (UK) evalled)

  1. To evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.
    • Of course, it's quite pointless to eval a piece of code that you know at compile time ...1997, Sriram Srinivasan, Andy Oram, Steve Talbott, Advanced Perl Programming

Adjective

eval (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Relating to time or duration.

Forms of eval

Noun
pluralevals
Verb
third-person singular presentevals
present participle USevaling
present participle UKevalling
past participle USevaled
past USevaled
past participle UKevalled
past UKevalled
Adjective
alternative formaeval

Origin of eval

Derived from Latin aevum (“lifetime, age, eternity”) + -al.

Words formed from eval

Phrases with eval

Questions about eval

What does eval mean?
Eval means to evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.
What is eval the abbreviation of?
Eval is the abbreviation of evaluation.
What part of speech is eval?
Eval can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce eval?
Eval is pronounced /ˈiː.væl/ (US).
What is the past tense of eval?
The past tense of eval is evaled.

Words near eval in the dictionary

  1. evaginates
  2. evaginating
  3. evagination
  4. evaginations
  5. evah
  6. eval
  7. evaled
  8. EVALI
  9. evaling
  10. EVALIs
  11. evalled

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