evaluation
Americannoun
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an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
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(especially in medicine) a diagnosis or diagnostic study of a physical or mental condition.
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Origin of evaluation
From the French word évaluation, dating back to 1745–55. See e- 1, valuation
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Explanation
An evaluation is an appraisal of something to determine its worth or fitness. For example, before you start an exercise program, get a medical evaluation, to make sure you're able to handle the activity. At the heart of the noun evaluation is the root word value, which means "worth." So an evaluation is an examination to find the worth of something. We do this every day — maybe making an evaluation of the prices in a store to decide whether or not to shop there. We might get an appraisal of our property, which is an evaluation to determine its worth in preparation for taking out a mortgage. Evaluation is vital in planning our lives.
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"Kimi K3 demonstrated frontier-level performance across our evaluation suite, consistently outperforming other tested models," Moonshot AI said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Our sanitation is different, our risk of disease is different, and so those all play into the evaluation of whether this is worthwhile of taking a risk for a vaccine or not."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Nomura thinks a software-hardware closed loop—spanning collection, transmission, evaluation, training, deployment and debugging—is a structurally defensible business model for pure-play data vendors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The child was later released after a medical evaluation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
He glanced at the count slip, the classroom inventory and, finally, the meal evaluation form.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Third-party evaluations from Artificial Analysis and Arena.ai show the model performing on a par with leading models in the US, such as OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Australia's social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers' scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the first evaluations of the world-leading measures.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Once launched, Starship will meet Orion in orbit and remain docked for approximately one day while engineers and astronauts carry out additional testing and system evaluations.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Fifth, meaningfully reward peer review in both pre- and post-tenure evaluations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Mr. Lewis did call Hazel’s mom, and on Friday morning she drove Hazel to school and the three of them sat in his office while he spoke of referrals and evaluations and partnerships and time-outs.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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