Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to an age.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Relating to time or duration.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • abbreviation evaluation
  • adjective obsolete Relating to time or duration.

Etymologies

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Latin aevum ("lifetime, age, eternity").

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Examples

  • The trick here is to use one of the methods inside the smarty class which is a wrapper around eval (). function _eval ($code, $params = null) {return eval ($code);} While this function does only define two parameters in its signature it is possible to call this function with more than two parameters.

    Planet PHP 2009

  • So I quickly did a query for those HTML pages which contain the word eval and contain the word unescape.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • So I quickly did a query for those HTML pages which contain the word eval and contain the word unescape.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • So I quickly did a query for those HTML pages which contain the word eval and contain the word unescape.

    The Official Microsoft IIS Site 2009

  • * Extremely robust guessing - if you say "Mid term eval due on 1st", it looks for the first of next month and adds it.

    Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev 2009

  • I have a goodly number of errands today: mid-term eval of student, some revision (both fic and po), bank stuff and, of course, my ten minute daily pondering of existence.

    Avoiding the Muse 2008

  • Letting the student know, or even suspect, that her eval might be the real reason would open up so many cans of worms that I can't enumerate them.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

  • But it can't really trace a benchmark like date-format-tofte, which calls eval in its main loop, so tracing only yields a 5% speedup on that program.

    Planet Mozilla dmandelin 2010

  • Then in timeline_ajax / scripts / units. js define the parser function which just calls eval ( 'new' + string) to construct a new Date object;

    MiniAjax.com 2009

  • However upon calling eval in JavaScript on the client side \/will corectly turn into/, so it souldn't be a problem.

    ASP.NET Forums cosophy@gmail.com 2009

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