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eval (plural evals)

  1. Abbreviation of evaluation.
    • 2007 August 27, Retro Studios, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (via Metroid Prime Trilogy, released 2009 August 24), Nintendo, Wii, Data Storage A, "Hunter Gandrayda" scan:
      Scans are unable to determine subject's [Gandrayda's] age, but psych eval suggests a high degree of youthfulness.
    • 2014, Robin Geesman, Under Lock and Key: The Zone:
      Both of their evals suggested good upbringings, though the interviewer couldn't get much out of Swartzkoff concerning his home life.

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eval (third-person singular simple present evals, present participle evalling or evaling, simple past and past participle evalled or evaled)

  1. (programming, of software) To evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.
    • 1997, Sriram Srinivasan, Andy Oram, Steve Talbott, Advanced Perl Programming:
      Of course, it's quite pointless to eval a piece of code that you know at compile time ...
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Latin aevum (lifetime, age, eternity).

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eval (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Relating to time or duration.

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