valence

Etymology 1


(“combining capacity of an atom”) and (“one-dimensional value assigned by a person to an object, situation, or state”) are borrowed from  + English. is a of, from English , from  + English  +  (whence Late 🇨🇬; ultimately from ). was by F. O. Ward who communicated it to the German chemist  (1818–1892), leading him to coin the German word. .

(“number of arguments a verb can have”) was formed by analogy to the use of the word in chemistry: see above.

Noun

 * 1)  The combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.
 * 2) The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen.
 * 3)  The number of arguments that a verb can have, including its subject, ranging from zero to three or, less commonly, four.
 * 4)  A one-dimensional value assigned by a person to an object, situation, or state, that can usually be positive (causing a feeling of attraction) or negative (repulsion).
 * 5)  The value which a person places on something.
 * 1)  A one-dimensional value assigned by a person to an object, situation, or state, that can usually be positive (causing a feeling of attraction) or negative (repulsion).
 * 2)  The value which a person places on something.
 * 1)  A one-dimensional value assigned by a person to an object, situation, or state, that can usually be positive (causing a feeling of attraction) or negative (repulsion).
 * 2)  The value which a person places on something.
 * 1)  The value which a person places on something.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: valensie
 * Albanian: valenca
 * Arabic: تكافؤ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: валентлыҡ
 * Basque: balentzia
 * Belarusian: вале́нтнасць
 * Bengali: যোজনী
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 原子價
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: вале́нтлӑх
 * Czech: valence
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: valento
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ვალენტობა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: עֶרְכִּיוּת
 * Hindi: संयोजकता
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: eingildi
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: fiús
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 原子価
 * Kabyle: tugdut
 * Kazakh: валенттілік
 * Khmer: វ៉ាឡង់
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: valence, vērtība
 * Lithuanian: valentingumas
 * Macedonian: вале́нтност
 * Marathi: संयुजा
 * North Frisian: walens
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: valens
 * Persian: ظرفیت شیمیایی
 * Polish: wartościowość
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਸੰਯੋਜਕਤਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: valenca, valence, valencije
 * Slovene: valenca
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: valensi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: balensiya
 * Tajik: валент, зарфият
 * Tamil: இணைதிறன்
 * Telugu: బాహుబలం
 * Thai: เวเลนซ์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ظرف
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: falens


 * Bulgarian: валенция
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: valence, mocenství
 * Esperanto: valento
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ვალენტობა
 * German:
 * Kazakh: валенттілік
 * Macedonian: вале́нција, вале́нтност
 * Polish: wartościowość
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Tagalog: kalwing
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: تَعَلُّق
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: valence
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: valento
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ვალენტობა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: валенттілік
 * Latin: valentia
 * Macedonian: вале́нција
 * Manx: ablid chianglee
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: valens
 * Nynorsk: valens
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: diátesis
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: تكافؤ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Japanese: 感情価
 * Korean: 감정가(感情價)
 * Latvian: vērtība
 * Macedonian: вале́нтност
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: валéнтність


 * German:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:

Etymology 2
A variant of.

Noun

 * , valency
 * , valency
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Related terms

 * See

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  valence
 * 2)  valency