ADJECTIVE
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containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen
a polyvalent vaccine - having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher
How To Use polyvalent In A Sentence
- Benjamin's scrutiny of Matisse is thus complex, shifting, and polyvalent, while at times even seeming to work against his own claims.
- Salons were polyvalent institutions capable of adapting to political and economic conditions, and maintaining their significance.
- The next section shows that electrostatic theory predicts this lateral sequestration of a polyvalent lipid.
- Law puts its trust in language as the instrument through which polyvalent signs can be reduced to a single truth and deliver both justice and narrative closure.
- Viewed in this way, the Fogg portrait conjures up all the polyvalent meanings of the phrase ‘painting as a woman.’
- They are polyvalent images: the sea suggesting a space to be explored, the possibility of quest and discovery, but also a place of danger, drifting, homelessness and exile.
- Rather than sticking to your own stable skills, you should be flexible and polyvalent, and you should do this on your own responsibility, autonomously.
- But the World Cup continues to draw its strength from a remarkably portable and polyvalent game that expresses itself vibrantly through the colourful, dramatic expression of national difference.
- By the end, his serrated anti-riffs are faster, clearer, louder, polyvalent, and virtually indistinguishable from his pre-Carpal recordings.
- The multiplication of terms, images and stories in various media is replaced by the work on the creation of a single, boundless, polyvalent mega-medium.