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 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 ...

Derived terms

• read-eval-print loop

Further reading

• eval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Latin aevum (“lifetime, age, eternity”).

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