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bivalence

bivalence noun: the state or quality of being bivalent (in any sense).

Noun

bivalence (countable and uncountable, plural bivalences)

  1. The state or quality of being bivalent (in any sense)
    • This holds even for principles of logic, such as bivalence.2008 January 3, Anand Vaidya, “Modal Rationalism and Modal Monism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI

Forms of bivalence

pluralbivalences

Origin of bivalence

From bi- + valence.

Questions about bivalence

What does bivalence mean?
Bivalence means the state or quality of being bivalent (in any sense).
What part of speech is bivalence?
Bivalence is a noun.
What is the plural of bivalence?
The plural of bivalence is bivalences.

Words near bivalence in the dictionary

  1. biuret
  2. biurets
  3. BIV
  4. bivagotomies
  5. bivagotomy
  6. bivalence
  7. bivalences
  8. bivalencies
  9. bivalency
  10. bivalent
  11. bivalently

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