Usually means: Number of chemical bonds formed.
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  1. valency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. valency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. valency: Collins English Dictionary
  4. valency: Vocabulary.com
  5. valency: Wordnik
  6. valency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. valency: Dictionary.com
  8. Valency (graph theory), Valency (linguistics), Valency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Valency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. valency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. valency: Rhymezone
  12. Valency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. valency: FreeDictionary.org
  14. valency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. valency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. valency: Wiktionary
  17. valency: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Valency: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. valency: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. valency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. valency: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. -valency, valency: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Valency: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. valency: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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noun:  (uncountable, by extension) The capacity of something to combine with other things, as for example the capability of a vaccine as measured by the number of pathogen serotypes that it can counteract.
noun:  (countable, graph theory) The number of edges connected to a vertex in a graph.
noun:  (uncountable) Importance, significance.
noun:  (countable, chemistry) Alternative form of valence (“the combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.”) [(countable, chemistry)]
noun:  (countable, linguistics) Alternative form of valence (“the number of arguments that a verb can have, including its subject, ranging from zero to three or, less commonly, four”) [(countable, chemistry)]

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