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Common name
The word "value" of classical Latin is used from the eleventh century to describe the merit or qualifications.
In medieval literature , the value is under martial, military bravery and fighting spirit.
By extension, the word is then taken for "significance", before admitting many skilled jobs:
Humanities
- In language , the value of a word is defined, according to Saussure in his report to the system of language;
- In music , the value of a note or a silence is its duration, either absolutely or relative to the unit of time;
- In philosophy , a value may refer to:
- The importance that a decision on moral or aesthetic;
- A standard of conduct, personal and social , within the legal or the ethical , the political , the spiritual or the aesthetic ;
- The set of values that can be for an individual or a group, a value scale ;
- See also the fact-value distinction.
Social & Economic Sciences
- In economics , management , finance or accounting , the value of a tangible or intangible, or service is generally the numerical form of price or cost, an estimation process.
- See " objective conception of value "and" subjective conception of value "
The concept is broken down in many forms, such as:
- The actual value , the current value , the nominal value ;
- The net value , the gross value ;
- The value of tax-free , the value of all taxes ;
- The customs value ;
- The present value ;
- The value of work , the use value , the exchange value ;
- The market value , the value market ;
- The book value , the acquisition value ;
- The residual value , the sale value , the liquidation value ;
- The value of life ;
- The security ;
Science
- In mathematics , a value is, in general, one of the determinations of a variable , with significant variations:
- An approximate value of a number is another number with which the gap is small enough to replace it in digital applications;
- The absolute value of a number is its numerical value, regardless of its sign;
- An eigenvalue of an operator is a scalar representing the ratio of an eigenvector in his image;
- An adhesion value of a sequence is an element whose every neighborhood contains an infinite number of terms in the sequence;
- In statistics , the value of an individual is the quality (or modality ) that presents a qualitative variable (or character ), or the numbers that measure the individual for a quantitative variable.
Proper noun
- Amand Value (1870-1927) is a chemist and pharmacologist French.
