eval

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ēʹvăl, IPA^(key): /ˈiː.væl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

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.

Verb

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

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 ...

Derived terms

• read-eval-print loop

Further reading

• eval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Derived from Latin aevum (“lifetime, age, eternity”) +‎ -al.

Alternative forms

• aeval

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːvəl/
• Homophone: evil (some accents)

Adjective

eval (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Relating to time or duration.

Anagrams

• Leva, Vale, Veal, Vela, avel, lave, leva, vale, veal, vela