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polyvalence

n. 1 the state of being polyvalent. 2 is congruent with polyvalency

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polyvalence

n. the state of being polyvalent [syn: polyvalency, multivalence, multivalency]

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Polyvalence

In chemistry, polyvalence or multivalence refers to atoms or molecules that exhibit more than one valence (chemistry).

Polyvalence or polyvalent may also refer to:

  • Polyvalence (music), the musical use of more than one key simultaneously
  • Polyvalent antibody, a group of antibodies that have affinity for various antigens
  • Polyvalent logic, a form of many-valued logic or probabilistic logic
  • Polyvalent vaccine, a vaccine that can vaccinate a person against more than one strain of a disease
  • Sala Polivalentă (disambiguation), various stadiums in Romania commonly translated as Polyvalent Hall
  • Snake antivenom that contains neutralizing antibodies against two or more species of snakes

Usage examples of "polyvalence".

The suspicion of a kind of journalistic superficiality to which such texts, and beyond them, the entire concept of testimony, are subject founders on this deepening polyvalence as the primary dynamic in putting pen to paper.

Derridean polyvalence, it reaches quite determinable persons in a determinable place, where it yields an all too decipherable meaning.

I must reiterate that the polyvalence -- the almost unbounded permissiveness -- of interpretation is essentially of the same nature as that of Rorschach tests.