NOUN
- (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two
- (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism
How To Use polyvalence In A Sentence
- What captivates him instead is the polyvalence of place and the sheer depth of the past. The Times Literary Supplement
- By contrast, Puma's sub-branding suggests a greater polyvalence: the brand engages divergent consumer subjectivities in much more definite and explicit ways.
- We do not inhabit a fixed or even firm milieu, the poem suggests, while enacting polyvalence and parataxis.
- In the IF system, teamwork has the innovative and major objective of enhancing flexibility and reducing costs by increasing workers' polyvalence and the reduction in idle times.
- In Kiefer's works, inauthentic possibilities appear just as rich as authentic ones - every element is caught up in the same rich polyvalence.
- By rejecting ‘the repressive hypothesis' Foucault encourages us to examine the incidence, resourcefulness, and polyvalence of power in fields previously regarded as free from its operation.
