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valencies

valencies is the plural of valency.

Meaning of valency

Noun

valency (countable and uncountable, plural valencies)

  1. (Britain, broadly, uncountable) 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.
    • vaccine valency
  2. (Britain, countable) The number of edges connected to a vertex in a graph.
    Synonyms:
    degree
  3. (Britain, uncountable) Importance, significance.

Questions about valencies

What is valencies the plural of?
Valencies is the plural of valency.

Words near valencies in the dictionary

  1. valencias
  2. valenciaxanthin
  3. Valenciennes
  4. Valenciennes lace
  5. Valenciennes laces
  6. valencies
  7. valency
  8. Valengin
  9. valenki
  10. valenok
  11. Valens

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