multivalent

About 0.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having more than one valency or having a valency greater than 3; polyvalent.
2. adjective Having three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis.
3. adjective Having more than one attachment site for an antibody or antigen.
4. adjective Able to bind to different parts of speech.
5. adjective Having many kinds of value.
6. adjective Having many meanings.
7. noun Any multivalent chromosome.

Similar words

polyvalent ambiguous multi-valued multivalenced multi-valenced quadrivalent polyfunctional multivalue plurivalent bivalent

Often followed by

cations ions and ligands antigen metal binding ligand antigens

Word family

multivalents