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valency   (TTS Sound)

The noun valency has 3 senses

• valency -- (the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds)


• valence, valency -- ((biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate)


• valence, valency -- ((chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent))