# evaluation

Pronunciation: US say "i-val-yoo-AY-shuhn" /ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃən/; UK

## Noun

1. An assessment of someone or something, such as a yearly review of an employee's performance used to decide pay, or a summary of a situation.
   - Simple: A careful judgment of how good, useful, or successful someone or something is.
   - _Employees receive an annual evaluation that helps determine their next raise._
   - _The consultant's evaluation of the company's finances revealed several hidden risks._
2. The process of determining the value that a variable or expression denotes.
   - Simple: Figuring out the value of a variable or an expression in math.
   - _The compiler performs evaluation of each expression at runtime._
   - _Evaluation of the variable y produced a value of twelve._
3. The completion of a mathematical operation, producing its resulting value; a valuation.
   - Simple: The finished result you get after carrying out a math operation.
   - _The evaluation of the sum yielded exactly one hundred._
   - _Each evaluation of the operation produces a single numerical result._

## Origin

This word comes from Middle French évaluation, and is formed from evaluate plus the suffix -ion.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/evaluation (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).