Usually means: Having two different valence states.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word bivalent:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. bivalent: Merriam-Webster
  2. bivalent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bivalent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bivalent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bivalent: Vocabulary.com
  6. bivalent: Wordnik
  7. bivalent: Wiktionary
  8. bivalent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bivalent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bivalent: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bivalent: Dictionary.com
  12. Bivalent (chemistry), Bivalent (disambiguation), Bivalent (engine), Bivalent (genetics), Bivalent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bivalent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bivalent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bivalent: Rhymezone
  16. Bivalent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bivalent: FreeDictionary.org
  18. bivalent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. bivalent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bivalent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bivalent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. bivalent: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Bivalent: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bivalent)

adjective:  (inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry) Having a valence of 2; having two ligands
adjective:  (genetics) Of, or relating to a pair of homologous synapsed chromosomes that occur during meiosis.
adjective:  (of a vaccine) Protecting against two different viruses.
noun:  (genetics) Any bivalent chromosome.

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