valuation

Noun

valuation (countable and uncountable, plural valuations)

1. An estimation of something's worth.
2. The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.
   • 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.1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, page 4
   • 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.2024 March 17, Echo Wang, “Exclusive: Reddit's IPO as much as five times oversubscribed, sources say”, in Reuters
3. (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. (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. A measure of size or multiplicity.
6. (domain theory) A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.