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valence

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in 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, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As with core levels, there are various approaches to the computation of valence level binding energies. ▪ Bonding may be ionic or covalent, depending on whether valence electrons are transferred or shared. ▪ In a pure semiconductor ...

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.