different between overview vs evaluation

English

Etymology

over- +? view

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v?(?)?vju?/

Noun

overview (plural overviews)

1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
2. An inspection.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?

Translations

Verb

overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)

1. To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
   • 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice [2], ?ISBN, page 313:

     Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.

English

Etymology

From Middle French évaluation.Morphologically evaluate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??vælju?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

evaluation (countable and uncountable, plural evaluations)

1. An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.
2. (mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
3. (computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.

Derived terms

Related terms

• evaluate

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See also

• revaluation
• valuation