multivalenced

English

Alternative forms

multi-valenced

Adjective

multivalenced (comparative more multivalenced, superlative most multivalenced)

1. Synonym of multivalent
   1. (chemistry) Having more than one valency.
      • 1923, Chemical Engineering and Mining Review - Volumes 16-17, page 443:

        In the case of a multivalenced element, this distribution varies with the valence as shown in Table 3.

      • 1960, Bulletin of the Georgia Academy of Science - Volumes 18-23, page 25:

        This is not the case with organic resins; however, this could be due to the smaller capacity of sodium attapulgite, when compared with organic resins, with no blockage of exchange sites resulting due to multivalenced ions.

      • 1991, Yi-Han Kao, Philip Coppens, Hoi S. Kwok, Superconductivity and Its Applications, page 231:

        It can be qualitatively explained that the multivalenced ions tend to be generated because excess positive charges are left there.

   2. (genetics) Having three or more homologous chromosomes during meiosis
      • 2009, Sarah S. Richardson, Gendering the genome: sex chromosomes in twentieth century genetics:

        The multivalenced case studies I present afford an opportunity to distinguish and define different kinds of gender-critical and gender-sensitive practices in science.

      • 2015, Luis A. Campos, Radium and the Secret of Life, →ISBN, page 231:

        With the elucidation of the mysteries of Oenothera, and as the mutation theory came under increasing attack, some proponents of a multivalenced view of mutation found it increasingly difficult to speak clearly about mutations on several different levels without seeming fuzzy-headed latecomers to seemingly discarded de Vriesian views.

   3. (immunology) Having more than one attachment site
      • 2014, Yves Queneau, A Pilar Rauter, Thisbe Lindhorst, Carbohydrate Chemistry: Chemical and Biological Approaches, →ISBN:

        It's not unreasonable to believe that, while carbohydrates themselves may not be particularly immunogenic, their conjugation to an appropriate multivalenced structure may work well.

   4. (grammar) Binding to different parts of speech
      • 2008, Joachim Jacobs, Arnim von Stechow, Wolfgang Sternefeld, Syntax, →ISBN, page 1076:

        A clause type S is basic with respect to argument mapping in a language L if (a) the predicate of S is morphosyntactically in the unmarked voice, and (b) the predicate of S selects an agent (and a patient, if the predicate is multivalenced).

      • 2012, Julia V. Douthwaite, The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France, →ISBN, page 76:

        In employing the multivalenced verb broncher, the narrator layers this clause with three meanings: the preferred tripod would not stumble or encounter difficulties or complain about its task; rather, it would stand still by the hearth and hold the pot.

      • 2015, Tibor Kiss, Artemis Alexiadou, Syntax - Theory and Analysis - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 229:

        In this type of linking, the patient of a multivalenced predicate is coded by the same case as the subject of a monovalenced predicate and differently from the agent of a multivalenced predicate.

   5. Having many kinds of value
      • 2013, Terry Marks-Tarlow, Psyche's Veil: Psychotherapy, Fractals and Complexity:

        Much like African drums differ from ordinary Western use of percussive rhythm, psychologic is more textured and nuanced, as it stretches beyond the two values of true and false often to become multivalenced.

   6. Having multiple meanings
      • 1997, Donna D. Daniels, When the living is the prayer: African-based religious reverence in everyday life among women of color devotees in the San Francisco Bay Area, page 31:

        In order to examine this multivalenced articulation with regard to women's religious reverence and cultural practice and explore its many meanings especially as it serves as a site for women's commentary on diasporic identity and community, a range of ideas must be set forth.

      • 2006, Andrea Tinnemeyer, Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative After 1848, →ISBN, page 19:

        In its suturing of warfront and homefront through the multivalenced rhetoric of romance, Francis Berrian anticipates mid-century dime novels whose martial and marital plots affirm the raced and gendered aspects of Manifest Destiny.