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Valency
Meaning
Noun
●
In Chemistry:
Alternative form of
valence
(“the
combining
capacity
of an
atom
,
functional group
, or
radical
determined
by the number of
atom
s of
hydrogen
with which it will
unite
, or the number of
electrons
that it will
gain
,
lose
, or
share
when it
combines
with other
atom
s, etc.”)
●
In Chemistry:
Alternative form of
valence
(“the
combining
capacity
of an
atom
,
functional group
, or
radical
determined
by the number of
atom
s of
hydrogen
with which it will
unite
, or the number of
electrons
that it will
gain
,
lose
, or
share
when it
combines
with other
atom
s, etc.”)
The
capacity
of
something to
combine
with other things,
as for
example
the
capability
of a
vaccine
as
measured
by the number of
pathogen
serotypes
that it can counteract.
●
In Graph theory:
The number of
edges
connected
to a
vertex
in a graph.
●
In Linguistics:
Alternative form of
valence
(“the number of
arguments
that a
verb
can have, including its
subject
,
ranging
from
zero
to three or, less
commonly
, four”)
●
Importance, significance.
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