MULTIVALENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does multivalency mean? 

• MULTIVALENCY (noun)
  The noun MULTIVALENCY has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULTIVALENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

multivalence; multivalency; polyvalence; polyvalency

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

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

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)

Derivation:

multivalent (having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher)