eval
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: ēʹvăl, IPA(key): /ˈiː.væl/
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Noun
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
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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Derived terms
- read-eval-print loop
Etymology 2
Latin aevum (“lifetime, age, eternity”).
Alternative forms
- aeval
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiːvəl/
- Homophone: evil (some accents)
Adjective
eval (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Relating to time or duration.
Anagrams
- Leva, Vale, Veal, Vela, avel, lave, leva, vale, veal, vela