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multivalency

multivalency noun: the property of being multivalent.

Noun

multivalency (countable and uncountable, plural multivalencies)

  1. The property of being multivalent.
    • The fact that the intensity of the fluorescence did not vary appreciably as the affinity of the interaction was lowered can be attributed to the multivalency of the BSA conjugates (avidity effects).2000 September 8, Gavin MacBeath, Stuart L. Schreiber, “Printing Proteins as Microarrays for High-Throughput Function Determination”, in Science, volume 289, number 5485, pages 1760–1763

Forms of multivalency

pluralmultivalencies

Origin of multivalency

From multi- + valency.

Questions about multivalency

What does multivalency mean?
Multivalency means the property of being multivalent.
What part of speech is multivalency?
Multivalency is a noun.
What is the plural of multivalency?
The plural of multivalency is multivalencies.

Words near multivalency in the dictionary

  1. multivagant
  2. multivalence
  3. multivalenced
  4. multivalences
  5. multivalencies
  6. multivalency
  7. multivalent
  8. multivalently
  9. multivalents
  10. multivallate
  11. multivallation

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