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Valency has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds

2

(biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate

3

(chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)

4

The number of edges connected to a vertex in a graph.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
chemical phenomenon power
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
covalence
Rhyming Words
ency incy ancy fancy nancy zincy mancy mincy noncy dancy duncy poncy yancy cincy trancy pouncy rouncy egency dauncy anancy
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