Definition of "value" []

• An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return. (noun)
• Monetary or material worth: the fluctuating value of gold and silver. (noun)
• Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit: the value of an education. (noun)
• A principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable: "The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility” ( Jonathan Alter). (noun)
• Precise meaning or import, as of a word. (noun)

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• "In the 3200 data set the value for days that are flagged in other data sets are then estimated against the other stations and entered in as “original value” in 3200."
• "But intrinsic value is not merely non-instrumental value; for it is also to be distinguished from what Moore calls the ˜value as a part™ of a situation, namely the extra contribution which the situation makes to the value of a complex situation of which it is a ˜part™, over and above its intrinsic value."
• "Not a portion of the value, but the _whole value_, is resolvable into net income and revenue maintaining British families, and creating and sustaining"