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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Genetics Of or relating to the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis.
  • adjective Chemistry & Immunology Polyvalent.
  • adjective Having various meanings or values.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In chem., equivalent in combining or displacing power to a number of hydrogen or other monad atoms.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a valence greater than one, as silicon.
  • adjective Having more than one degree of valence, as sulphur.
  • adjective (Immunology) Having multiple antigen-binding sites; -- of antibody molecules.
  • adjective (Immunology) Containing several types of antibody, to protect against more than one disease; polyvalent; -- of vaccines.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective chemistry Having more than one valency or having a valency greater than 3; polyvalent
  • adjective genetics Having three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis
  • adjective immunology Having more than one attachment site for an antibody or antigen
  • adjective Having many meanings
  • noun genetics Any multivalent chromosome.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having many values, meanings, or appeals
  • adjective having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher
  • adjective used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis

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  • Specifying that, in the case of so-called multivalent or composite documents, that the alternatives form a complete version of the document, e.g. so where there are several alternative formats given for formulae, that there are JPEGs and MathML versions of all formulae, according to some edition of some profile or specification.

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  • Specifying that, in the case of so-called multivalent or composite documents, that the alternatives form a complete version of the document, e.g. so where there are several alternative formats given for formulae, that there are JPEGs and MathML versions of all formulae, according to some edition of some profile or specification.

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