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ELECTRONEGATIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electronegativity mean? 

ELECTRONEGATIVITY (noun)
  The noun ELECTRONEGATIVITY has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bondplay

  Familiarity information: ELECTRONEGATIVITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ELECTRONEGATIVITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

electronegativity; negativity

Hypernyms ("electronegativity" is a kind of...):

inclination; tendency (a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)


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