Polyvalence or polyvalent may refer to:
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Polyvalency (chemistry)
In chemistry, polyvalency (or polyvalence, multivalency) is the property of molecules and larger species, such as antibodies, medical drugs, and even nanoparticles surface-functionalized with ligands, like spherical nucleic acids, that exhibit m ...
, chemical species, generally atoms or molecules, which exhibit more than one chemical valence
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Polyvalence (music), the musical use of more than one harmonic function of a tonality simultaneously
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Polyvalent antibody, a group of antibodies that have affinity for various antigens
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Polyvalent logic
Many-valued logic (also multi- or multiple-valued logic) is a propositional calculus in which there are more than two truth values. Traditionally, in Aristotle's logical calculus, there were only two possible values (i.e., "true" and "false") for ...
, a form of many-valued logic or probabilistic logic
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Polyvalent vaccine, a vaccine that can vaccinate a person against more than one strain of a disease
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Sala Polivalentă (disambiguation) Sala Polivalentă may refer to:
* Arena Polivalentă, a 20,000-seat multi-purpose arena
An arena is a large enclosed venue, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, Music, musical performances or Sport, sporting events. It ...
, various stadiums in Romania commonly translated as Polyvalent Hall
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Snake antivenom
Snake antivenom is a medication made up of antibodies used to treat snake bites by venomous snakes. It is a type of antivenom.
It is a biological product that typically consists of venom neutralizing antibodies derived from a host animal, s ...
that contains neutralizing antibodies against two or more species of snakes
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Bivalence
In logic, the semantic principle (or law) of bivalence states that every declarative sentence expressing a proposition (of a theory under inspection) has exactly one truth value, either true or false. A logic satisfying this principle is called ...
, principle in logic that every declaration is either true or false
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Monovalence (disambiguation)
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Valence (disambiguation)
Valence or valency may refer to:
Science
*Valence (chemistry), a measure of an element's combining power with other atoms
*Valence electron, electrons in the outer shell of an atom's energy levels
*Valence quarks, those quarks within a hadron th ...
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