[a. Fr. évaluation, f. évaluer, f. é- = es- (:—L. ex) out + value VALUE.]
1. The action of appraising or valuing (goods, etc.); a calculation or statement of value; = VALUATION. Now rare.
1755. Magens, Insurances, II. 137. When a certain Evaluation is admitted in the Policy, no Premium can be demanded back.
1804. Colebrooke, Husb. & Comm. Bengal (1806), 54–5. The usual evaluation of different articles of produce.
1850. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), I. ii. 58. The evaluation of his treasures has been preserved.
2. The action of evaluating or determining the value of (a mathematical expression, a physical quantity, etc.), or of estimating the force of (probabilities, evidence, etc.).
1779. Ingenhousz, in Phil. Trans., LXIX. 395. This evaluation was made before the new discoveries upon the nature of nitre and charcoal.
1790. Gibbon, Misc. Wks. (1814), III. 509, note. His evaluation [of the mansus] would produce two hundred, or more probably twenty thousand English acres.
1828. Edin. Rev., XLVIII. 511. The evaluation of certain sorts of evidence.
1846. Mill, Logic, III. xviii. § 3. Before applying the doctrine of chances … the foundation must be laid for an evaluation of the chances.
1887. Athenæum, 2 April, 452/1. The author’s … evaluation of some terms in the [lunar] theory … was thereby lost.
