Evaluation vs. Comparison — What's the Difference?

Evaluation is a systematic determination of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realisable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to help in decision-making; or to ascertain the degree of achievement or value in regard to the aim and objectives and results of any such action that has been completed.

The act of comparing or the process of being compared.

The making of a judgement about the amount, number, or value of something; assessment

A statement or estimate of similarities and differences.

To ascertain or fix the value or amount of

The quality of being similar or equivalent; likeness

To determine the importance, effectiveness, or worth of; assess

(Grammar) The modification or inflection of an adjective or adverb to denote the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees, as in English, along with the equative degree in certain other languages, such as Irish Gaelic.

(Mathematics) To calculate the numerical value of; express numerically.

The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.

An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.

(mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.

With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.

Determination of the value of a variable or expression.

(grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.

Valuation; appraisement.

That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.

Act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of

(rhetoric) A simile.

An appraisal of the value of something;

(phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.

The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.

That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.

The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.

A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.

The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

To compare.

Examining resemblances or differences

Relation based on similarities and differences

Qualities that are comparable;