eval

Relating to time or duration.

Adjective

  1. Relating to time or duration.

Origin

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

Forms

aeval

Noun

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

Forms

evals

Verb

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

Forms

evals evaling evalling evaled evalled

Derived

read-eval-print loop