different between belief vs valuation

English

Etymology

From Middle English bileve, from Old English l?afa, from Proto-Germanic *laubô. Compare German Glaube (“faith, belief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??li?f/, /b??li?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f
• Hyphenation: be?lief

Noun

belief (countable and uncountable, plural beliefs)

1. Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
2. Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.

3. (countable) Something believed.
4. (uncountable) The quality or state of believing.

5. (uncountable) Religious faith.

6. (in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.

Derived terms

• beliefful
• beyond belief
• disbelief
• forebelief
• self-belief
• unbelief
• wanbelief

Related terms

• believe

Translations

Anagrams

• befile, belfie

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

belief

1. imperative of believen

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b??li?f]
• Hyphenation: be?lief

Verb

belief

1. first-person singular preterite of belaufen
2. third-person singular preterite of belaufen

English

Etymology

Middle French valuation, noun of action from valuer, from Old French valoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væ.lju??e?.??n/

Noun

valuation (countable and uncountable, plural valuations)

1. An estimation of something's worth.
2. (finance, insurance) The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.
   • 1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, page 4:

     The tax assessor put them in fourteen valuation groups ranging from one two-story brick house and two one-and-a-half-story houses to the largest groups of eighteen two-story houses and twenty-four one-story bungalows.

3. (logic, propositional logic, model theory) An assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables (obtained through the recursive application of truth-valued functions corresponding to the logical connectives making up those formulas).
4. (logic, first-order logic, model theory) A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.
5. (algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.
6. (measure theory, domain theory) A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.

Related terms

• evaluation
• revaluation
• transvaluation

Translations

See also

• (logic): interpretation