Polyvalence or polyvalent may refer to:
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Polyvalency (chemistry)
In chemistry, polyvalency (or polyvalence, multivalency) is the property of chemical species (generally atoms or molecules) that exhibit more than one valence by forming multiple chemical bonds (Fig. 1). A bivalent species can form two bonds; a ...
, chemical species, generally atoms or molecules, which exhibit more than one chemical valence
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Polyvalence (music) Polytonality (also polyharmony) is the musical use of more than one key simultaneously. Bitonality is the use of only two different keys at the same time. Polyvalence or polyvalency is the use of more than one harmonic function, from the same key, ...
, the musical use of more than one harmonic function of a tonality simultaneously
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Polyvalent antibody
An antibody (Ab), also known as an immunoglobulin (Ig), is a large, Y-shaped protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects such as pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The antibody recognizes a unique molecule of the ...
, a group of antibodies that have affinity for various antigens
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Polyvalent logic
Many-valued logic (also multi- or multiple-valued logic) refers to a propositional calculus in which there are more than two truth values. Traditionally, in Aristotle's logical calculus, there were only two possible values (i.e., "true" and "false" ...
, a form of many-valued logic or probabilistic logic
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Polyvalent vaccine, a vaccine that can vaccinate a person against more than one strain of a disease
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Sala Polivalentă (disambiguation) Sala Polivalentă may refer to:
*Arena Polivalentă, a 20,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Bucharest, Romania
* Sala Polivalentă (Timișoara), a 16,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Timișoara, Romania
* Sala Polivalentă Regina Maria, a 10,212-seat ...
, various stadiums in Romania commonly translated as Polyvalent Hall
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Snake antivenom
Snake antivenom is a medication made up of antibodies used to treat snake bites by venomous snakes. It is a type of antivenom.
It is a biological product that typically consists of venom neutralizing antibodies derived from a host animal, such ...
that contains neutralizing antibodies against two or more species of snakes
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Bivalence
In logic, the semantic principle (or law) of bivalence states that every declarative sentence expressing a proposition (of a theory under inspection) has exactly one truth value, either true or false. A logic satisfying this principle is called ...
, principle in logic that every declaration is either true or false
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Monovalence (disambiguation)
Monovalence or Monovalent may refer to:
*Monovalent ion, an atom, ion, or chemical group with a valency of one, which thus can form one covalent bond
* Monovalent vaccine, a vaccine directed at only one pathogen
* Monovalent antibody, an antibody ...
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Valence (disambiguation)
Valence or valency may refer to:
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* Valence (chemistry), a measure of an element's combining power with other atoms
* Degree (graph theory), also called the valency of a vertex in graph theory
* Valency (linguistics), aspect of verbs rel ...
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