Crossword clues for valence
valence
- Bonding measurement
- (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate
- (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals
- Their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)
- Element's degree of combining power
- Capital of Drôme
- Chemical bonding number
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Valance \Val"ance\, n. [Perhaps fr. OF. avalant descending, hanging down, p. pr. of avaler to go down, let down, descent (cf. Avalanche); but probably from the town of Valence in France.]
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Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. [Written also valence.]
Valance of Venice gold in needlework.
--Shak. The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "extract, preparation," from Latin valentia "strength, capacity," from valentem (nominative valens) "strong, stout, vigorous, powerful," present participle of valere "be strong" (see valiant). Meaning "relative combining capacity of an element" is recorded from 1884, from German Valenz (1868), from the Latin word. Related: Valency.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context chemistry medicine obsolete outside compounds English) An extract; a preparation, now especially one effective against a certain number of strains of a pathogen. 2 (context chemistry English) The combining capacity of an atom, radical or functional group determined by the number of electrons that it will lose, gain, or share when it combines with other atoms etc 3 (context chemistry English) The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen 4 (context linguistics English) The number of arguments that a verb can have, including its subject, ranging from zero (for the likes of "It rains") to three (for the likes of "He gives her a flower"). 5 (context psychology English) A one-dimensional value assigned to an object, situation, or state, that can usually be positive or negative 6 (context sociology English) value n. 1 (context chemistry medicine obsolete outside compounds English) An extract; a preparation, now especially one effective against a certain number of strains of a pathogen. 2 (context chemistry English) The combining capacity of an atom, radical or functional group determined by the number of electrons that it will lose, gain, or share when it combines with other atoms etc 3 (context chemistry English) The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen 4 (context linguistics English) The number of arguments that a verb can have, including its subject, ranging from zero (for the likes of "It rains") to three (for the likes of "He gives her a flower"). 5 (context psychology English) A one-dimensional value assigned to an object, situation, or state, that can usually be positive or negative 6 (context sociology English) value Etymology 2
n. (alternative spelling of valance English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Valence or valency may refer to:
In chemistry, the valence or valency of an element is a measure of its combining power with other atoms when it forms chemical compounds or molecules. The concept of valence was developed in the second half of the 19th century and was successful in explaining the molecular structure of inorganic and organic compounds. The quest for the underlying causes of valence led to the modern theories of chemical bonding, including the cubical atom (1902), Lewis structures (1916), valence bond theory (1927), molecular orbitals (1928), valence shell electron pair repulsion theory (1958), and all of the advanced methods of quantum chemistry.
- Redirect Valence, Drôme
Valence, as used in psychology, especially in discussing emotions, means the intrinsic attractiveness (positive valence) or aversiveness (negative valence) of an event, object, or situation. However, the term is also used to characterize and categorize specific emotions. For example, the emotions popularly referred to as "negative", such as anger and fear, have "negative valence". Joy has "positive valence". Positively valenced emotions are evoked by positively valenced events, objects, or situations. The term is also used about the hedonic tone of feelings, affect, certain behaviors (for example, approach and avoidance), goal attainment or nonattainment, and conformity with or violation of norms. Ambivalence can be viewed as conflict between positive and negative valence-carriers.
Theorists taking a valence-based approach to studying affect, judgment, and choice posit that emotions with the same valence (i.e. anger and fear or pride and surprise) produce a similar influence on judgments and choices.
Usage examples of "valence".
That is the fidelity of a woman speaking, for Sier Valence has already said that he has abjured his oaths for the sake of this woman, and she does not deny it.
Nothing was brewing, and if anything ever did, Addis de Valence would not be in the middle of it.
With his guardian Addis de Valence teaching him to see the small evidence left behind by men on horse or foot, he had led the small troop that caught them.
After attending to some other gospel-service at Grenoble, they resumed their journey, held meetings in Valence and the neighborhood, and crossing the Rhone, entered Ardeche.
It was called a Deep Electromotive Valence Induration Lithospherimal process.
Valence and Count Randan, plenipotentiaries from France, signed a treaty at Edinburgh with Cecil and Dr.
Do you mean those bullies Le Reynie bosses around, like Desgrez who was ordered to arrest my counselor Cosnac, Bishop of Valence?
Law of Gases, the Law of Combining Volumes, the Zeroth Law, the Valence Concept, the Laws of Mass Actions, and others beyond counting.
He reinforced the garrisons at Carlisle and Berwick and appointed Henry Percy as commander in the west with Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, in the east.
Valence, as he climbed painfully onto his strich, and rode after them.
The master binarism around which all the other terms turn, and the only one which regularly shifts valences, is that of homosexuality versus heterosexuality.
He had passed most of the previous day reading over all the inventories and similar documents which had been presented to the funda by the French Hospitaler, Sier Valence Rainaut.
We drove on for fifteen posts without stopping, and passed the night at Valence.
Earlier in the reign of Valence the Third, the Kingdom of the Isles had controlled little more than port duties and the fishing within dory-haul of Ornifal, but even that slight reach had required enforcement vessels.
Hamlet because emissaries of King Valence told her that she was the daughter of Countess Tera, murdered during the riots in Carcosa seventeen years before.