eval
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Etymology 1 edit
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- (General American) enPR: ēʹvăl, IPA(key): /ˈiː.væl/
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Noun edit
eval (plural evals)
- 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.
- 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:
Verb edit
eval (third-person singular simple present evals, present participle evalling or evaling, simple past and past participle evalled or evaled)
- (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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Etymology 2 edit
Latin aevum (“lifetime, age, eternity”).
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eval (not comparable)