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polyvalent
[ pol-ee-vey-luhnt, puh-liv-uh-luhnt ]
adjective
- Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- Bacteriology. (of an immune serum) containing several antibodies, each capable of reacting with a specific antigen.
polyvalent
/ ˌpɒlɪˈveɪəԳ; pəˈlɪvəəԳ /
adjective
- chem having more than one valency
- of a vaccine
- effective against several strains of the same disease-producing microorganism, antigen, or toxin
- produced from cultures containing several strains of the same microorganism
polyvalent
/ ŏ′ē-′əԳ /
- Acting against or interacting with more than one kind of antigen, antibody, toxin, or microorganism.
- Having more than one valence. Iron and manganese are polyvalent elements.
Derived Forms
- ˌDZˈԳ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- DZy·lԳ noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of polyvalent1
Example Sentences
“So we wanted to find a way to make it, like, polyvalent and able to target more than one drug.”
For several years, Bstroy has been figuring out ways to make improbable gestures probable, with clothes that anticipate needs that are primal, polyvalent and sometimes mutant.
What Debussy did was to pull apart the epoxy-strength attachment those chords share and allow them to float, not entirely free from each other, but in a more polyvalent, even ambiguous relation to each other.
At its best, BTS’s music is dense and polyvalent, verging on chaos.
Artists’ books, she said, are polyvalent, with multiple access points.
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