Value or values may refer to:
Ethics and social sciences
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Value (ethics)
In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics), or to describe the significance of different ac ...
, concept which may be construed as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, associating value to them
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Axiology
Value theory, also called ''axiology'', studies the nature, sources, and types of values. It is a branch of philosophy and an interdisciplinary field closely associated with social sciences such as economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychol ...
, interdisciplinary study of values, including ethical values
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Social imaginary
The imaginary (or social imaginary) is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols through which people imagine their social whole. It is common to the members of a particular social group and the corresponding society. The concept of t ...
, set of morals, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group
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Religious values, beliefs and practices which a religious adherent partakes in
Economics
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Value (economics)
In economics, economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a goods, good or service (economics), service to an Agent (economics), economic agent, and value for money represents an assessment of whether financial or other resources are ...
, a measure of the benefit that may be gained from goods or service
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Theory of value (economics)
In economics, economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a goods, good or service (economics), service to an Agent (economics), economic agent, and value for money represents an assessment of whether financial or other resources are ...
, the study of the concept of economic value
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Value (marketing)
Value in marketing
Marketing is the act of acquiring, satisfying and retaining customers. It is one of the primary components of Business administration, business management and commerce.
Marketing is usually conducted by the seller, ty ...
, the difference between a customer's evaluation of benefits and costs
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Value investing, an investment paradigm
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Values (heritage)
The values embodied in cultural heritage are identified in order to assess significance, prioritize resources, and inform conservative-restorative decision-making. It is recognised that values may compete and change over time, and that heritage ...
, the measure by which the cultural significance of heritage items is assessed
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Present value
In economics and finance, present value (PV), also known as present discounted value (PDV), is the value of an expected income stream determined as of the date of valuation. The present value is usually less than the future value because money ha ...
, value of an expected income stream as of the date of valuation
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Present value of benefits, discounted sum of a stream of benefits associated with a project or proposal
Business
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Business value
In management, business value is an informal term that includes all forms of Value (economics), value that determine the health and well-being of the firm in the long run. Business value expands concept of value of the firm beyond economic value (a ...
, forms of value that determine the health and well-being of a firm
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Customer value
In management, business value is an informal term that includes all forms of value that determine the health and well-being of the firm in the long run. Business value expands concept of value of the firm beyond economic value (also known as econo ...
, economic value received by the end-customer of a product or service
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Employee value
Employee lifetime value (ELTV) is the a metric to estimate the total value an employee brings to an organization throughout their tenure with a company.
Description
Employee lifetime value is the human resources people analytics metric to est ...
, economic value an employee brings to an organization
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Shareholder value
Shareholder value is a business term, sometimes phrased as shareholder value maximization. The term expresses the idea that the primary goal for a business is to increase the wealth of its shareholders (owners) by paying dividends and/or causing th ...
, business term
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Value (marketing)
Value in marketing
Marketing is the act of acquiring, satisfying and retaining customers. It is one of the primary components of Business administration, business management and commerce.
Marketing is usually conducted by the seller, ty ...
, prospective customer's evaluation of the benefits and costs of one product
Other uses
* Value, also known as
lightness
Lightness is a visual perception of the luminance (L) of an object. It is often judged relative to a similarly lit object. In colorimetry and color appearance models, lightness is a prediction of how an illuminated color will appear to a stand ...
or tone, a representation of variation in the perception of a color or color space's brightness
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Value (computer science)
In computer science and software programming, a value is the representation of some entity that can be manipulated by a program. The members of a type are the values of that type.
The "value of a variable" is given by the corresponding mappin ...
, an expression that implies no further mathematical processing; a "normal form"
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Value (mathematics)
In mathematics, value may refer to several, strongly related notions.
In general, a mathematical value may be any definite mathematical object. In elementary mathematics, this is most often a number – for example, a real number such as or an ...
, a property such as number assigned to or calculated for a variable, constant or expression
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Value (semiotics)
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In semiotics, the value of a sign depends on its position and relations in the system of signification and upon the particular codes being used.
Saussure's value
Value is the sign as it is determined by the o ...
, the significance, purpose and/or meaning of a symbol as determined or affected by other symbols
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Note value
In music notation, a note value indicates the relative duration (music), duration of a note (music), note, using the texture or shape of the ''notehead'', the presence or absence of a ''stem (music), stem'', and the presence or absence of ''flags ...
, the relative duration of a musical note
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Values (political party)
The Values Party was a New Zealand political party. It is considered the world's first national-level environmentalist party, pre-dating the use of "Green politics, Green" as a political label. It was established in May 1972 at Victoria Universi ...
, a defunct New Zealand environmentalist political party
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"Value" (''Atlanta''), 2016 TV episode
See also
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Instrumental and intrinsic value
In moral philosophy, instrumental and intrinsic value are the distinction between what is a ''means to an end'' and what is as an ''end in itself''. Things are deemed to have instrumental value (or extrinsic value) if they help one achieve a part ...
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Value theory
Value theory, also called ''axiology'', studies the nature, sources, and types of Value (ethics and social sciences), values. It is a branch of philosophy and an interdisciplinary field closely associated with social sciences such as economics, ...
, a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree people value things
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Valu (disambiguation)
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