Usually means: Sharing of electrons between atoms.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. covalence: Merriam-Webster
  2. covalence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. covalence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. covalence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. covalence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Covalence: Wordnik
  7. covalence: Wiktionary
  8. covalence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. covalence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. covalence: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. covalence: Dictionary.com
  12. covalence: Rhymezone
  13. covalence: FreeDictionary.org
  14. covalence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. covalence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. covalence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. covalence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. covalence: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (covalence)

noun:  (chemistry) A form of valence in which electrons are shared between participating atoms
noun:  (chemistry) The number of electrons that a particular atom can share (and therefore the number of covalent bonds it can form)

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