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multivalent

multivalent adjective: having more than one valency or having a valency greater than 3; polyvalent.

Adjective

multivalent (comparative more multivalent, superlative most multivalent)

  1. Having more than one valency or having a valency greater than 3; polyvalent.
  2. Having three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis.
  3. Having more than one attachment site for an antibody or antigen.
  4. Able to bind to different parts of speech.
    • This procedure can be justified by considering the difficult word or compound as a separate part of a sentence of which the (verbal) adjective is the multivalent predicate, i.e. able to bind more than one part of speech.1993, Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies - Volume 37, page 83
    • In general terms, each of the causative suffixes derives a multivalent verb having the meaning 'to cause/make to V', where V is a variable standing for the verbal action of the base.2016, Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages, →ISBN, page 125
  5. Having many kinds of value.
  6. Having many meanings.

Noun

multivalent (plural multivalents)

  1. Any multivalent chromosome.

multivalent meaning in Tamil and Urdu

multivalent in Tamil

பல்வலுவுள்ள

multivalent in Urdu

کثیر گرفتہ

Forms of multivalent

Adjective
comparativemore multivalent
superlativemost multivalent
Noun
pluralmultivalents

Origin of multivalent

From multi- + -valent.

Words formed from multivalent

Questions about multivalent

What does multivalent mean?
Multivalent means having more than one valency or having a valency greater than 3; polyvalent.
What is multivalent in Tamil?
Multivalent in Tamil is பல்வலுவுள்ள. See Multivalent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is multivalent?
Multivalent can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near multivalent in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: multivalent (page history and authors); multivalent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); multivalent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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