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EVALUATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("evaluation" is a kind of...):
assessment; judgement; judgment (the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evaluation"):
grading; marking; scoring (evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score)
Derivation:
evaluate (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An appraisal of the value of something
Example:
he set a high valuation on friendship
Synonyms:
evaluation; rating; valuation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("evaluation" is a kind of...):
appraisal; assessment (the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evaluation"):
overvaluation (too high a value or price assigned to something)
undervaluation (too low a value or price assigned to something)
pricing (the evaluation of something in terms of its price)
reevaluation (the evaluation of something a second time (or more))
grade; mark; score (a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance))
bond rating (an evaluation by a rating company of the probability that a particular bond issue will default)
Derivation:
evaluate (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)
Context examples:
A numeric identifier for substances submitted to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for testing and evaluation.
(NSC Number, NCI Thesaurus)
Any one of several evaluation/assessment tools used to ascertain a patient's level of pain.
(Pain Assessment Tool, NCI Thesaurus)
Peak Expiratory Flow (PEF) - one of the lung function testing parameters measuring the rate at which a patient can exhale for vital lung capacity evaluation.
(Peak Expiratory Flow, NCI Thesaurus)
These referees each return an evaluation of the work, including suggestions for improvement.
(Peer Review, NCI Thesaurus)
Compounds that contain Ozone, a highly active oxidizing agent that have application in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, cancer diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of disease progression.
(Ozone-based Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition to providing high-level resolutions for the evaluation of microanatomic structures OCT is also able to provide information regarding tissue composition.
(Optical coherence tomography, NCI Thesaurus)
An evaluation of the size and shape of the nucleus in tumor cells and the percentage of tumor cells that are in the process of dividing or growing.
(Nuclear grade, NCI Dictionary)
The process by which a value is assigned to represent another set of values for ease of evaluation within a particular process.
(Numeric Conversion, NCI Thesaurus)
Evaluation and measurement of nutritional variables in order to assess the level of nutrition or the nutritional status of the individual.
(Nutritional Assessment, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It is done for the evaluation of hematopoietic disorders and for the evaluation of infectious diseases and cytogenetic studies.
(Bone marrow aspiration, NCI Thesaurus)
