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Value or values may refer to:

Concepts of worth

• Value theory, overview of approaches in various disciplines
• Value (ethics)
  • Value (personal and cultural)
• Value (economics), a measure of the benefit that an economic actor can gain from either a good or service
  • Theory of value (economics)

all the cost of an offering & the perceived alternatives

• Value (law), i.e. consideration

Concepts of quantity, amount, or entity

• Value (semiotics)
• Value (mathematics), commonly refers to the output of a function
• Value (computer science), an expression which cannot be evaluated any further (a normal form)
• Note value (music), indicates the relative duration of a note, using the color or shape

Colour theory

• Lightness, a property of a color, or a dimension of a color space

See also

• Value judgment
• Artistic merit
• Anthropological theories of value
• Theory of value for more general discussions of economic value.
• Moral character

Synonyms

• (quality that renders something desirable) worth