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MULTIVALENT

\mˌʌltɪvˈalənt], \mˌʌltɪvˈalənt], \m_ˌʌ_l_t_ɪ_v_ˈa_l_ə_n_t]\

Definitions of MULTIVALENT

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language

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used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

Having a valence greater than one, as silicon.
Having more than one degree of valence, as sulphur.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Having a valence greater than one, as silicon.
Having more than one degree of valence, as sulphur.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

1. In chemistry, having a combining power of more than one atom of hydrogen. 2. Efficacious in more than one direction.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

mut-tiv'a-lent, adj. (chem.) equivalent in combining or displacing power to a number of hydrogen or other monad atoms.--n. MULTIV'ALENCE.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

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