ADJECTIVE
- used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis
- having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher
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having many values, meanings, or appeals
subtle, multivalent allegory
How To Use multivalent In A Sentence
- In a multivalent society, the multiple personality is the only one which can fulfill. THE DICE MAN
- Specifying that, in the case of so-called multivalent or composite documents, that the alternatives form a complete version of the document, e.g. so where there are several alternative formats given for formulae, that there are JPEGs and MathML versions of all formulae, according to some edition of some profile or specification. Planet XML
- subtle, multivalent allegory
- It is much easier in a classroom than in a museum installation to project the image of the continent's art as historically dynamic, multivalent, and heterogeneous.
- Like all the scenery he made for Graham, and probably for his other choreographic projects, it was symbolic, multivalent.
- Admittedly the definition of each term is multivalent, and their connections are elastic.
- Different from bivalent polyploids, multivalent polyploids pair their chromosomes among more than two homologous copies at meiosis.
- Frankly, some foul language can convey such complex, multivalent ideas in single syllables it feels a shame to try to elaborate and risk losing one iota of poignancy in a heated moment.
- In private settings, an exquisite image of a religious subject with multivalent textual meaning could serve all manner of eyes - Protestant, Catholic, the politically committed, the aesthetically conscious.
- The quaternary structure provides the protein with a requisite topology that helps in multivalent binding to cells.