Valuation may refer to:
Economics
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Valuation (finance), the determination of the economic value of an asset or liability
**
Real estate appraisal, sometimes called ''property valuation'' (especially in
British English
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), the appraisal of land or buildings
*A distinction between
real prices and ideal prices in
Marxist theory.
*The term valuation function is often used as a synonym to
utility function
In economics, utility is a measure of a certain person's satisfaction from a certain state of the world. Over time, the term has been used with at least two meanings.
* In a Normative economics, normative context, utility refers to a goal or ob ...
.
*The
sociology of valuation also takes economic valuation practices as an object of study.
* ''
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies''
Mathematics
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Valuation (algebra), a measure of multiplicity
**
p-adic valuation
In number theory, the valuation or -adic order of an integer is the exponent of the highest power of the prime number that divides .
It is denoted \nu_p(n).
Equivalently, \nu_p(n) is the exponent to which p appears in the prime factorization of ...
, a special case
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Valuation (geometry), a generalization of finitely-additive measures
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Valuation (logic), an operation on well-formed formulas with the semantics of evaluation
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Valuation (measure theory), a tool for constructing outer measures
Other uses
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Valuation (ethics), the determination of the ethic or philosophic value of an object
* For personal valuation, see
dignity
Dignity is a human's contentment attained by satisfying physiological needs and a need in development. The content of contemporary dignity is derived in the new natural law theory as a distinct human good.
As an extension of the Enlightenment- ...
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