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Definition of multivalent in English: multivalentadjective ˌmʌltɪˈveɪl(ə)nt 1Having or susceptible of many applications, interpretations, meanings, or values. visually complex and multivalent work Example sentencesExamples - The graphic patterns of oscillating logic became increasingly multivalent and subtle with the application of fuzzy logic with more truth-values lying in-between.
- Accessibility is a multivalent issue, one that points to the deeper issues already mentioned.
- This is because readers themselves play an active role in interpreting a multivalent and open-ended modernist cultural text.
- Frankly, some foul language can convey such complex, multivalent ideas in single syllables it feels a shame to try to elaborate and risk losing one iota of poignancy in a heated moment.
- His work is wide in scope and multivalent in meaning, two characteristics that will grow and deepen not only upon further investigation into the work but also upon further personal rumination.
- Even in its own terms Islam is and has always been multivalent.
- I've used the multivalent interpretative possibilities to allow plots, elements, and events to overlap.
- Like all the scenery he made for Graham, and probably for his other choreographic projects, it was symbolic, multivalent.
- It is much easier in a classroom than in a museum installation to project the image of the continent's art as historically dynamic, multivalent, and heterogeneous.
- Admittedly the definition of each term is multivalent, and their connections are elastic.
- I thought at first that he was trying to make a point about how media images of violence are so multivalent.
- I am especially interested in the ways that these individuals construct on-going, fluid, and multivalent narratives of Jewish identity rooted in the situations and relationships that constitute their daily lives.
- They are emergent, multivalent signifiers in search of an open interpretation, one related to the building task, the site and the language of the particular architecture.
- Through this multivalent signs, the scene forever oscillates between narration of butchery and love; it ‘checkmates’ any interpretation.
- The artist's lyrical, figurative paintings and collages reflect multivalent effects of his study of other art.
- In private settings, an exquisite image of a religious subject with multivalent textual meaning could serve all manner of eyes - Protestant, Catholic, the politically committed, the aesthetically conscious.
- I believe that they are everywhere, but on very different terms that reflect the multivalent realities of today.
- Bodies deprived of attractive surroundings were as likely to be as depressed - or to use the superbly multivalent Rasta term, downpressed - as those deprived of anything they more obviously ‘needed’.
- His inversion and subversion of these multivalent emblems of consumer culture reinforce the anti-consumer message he delivers in our era of late capitalism and globalization.
- Thumbnail sketches often characterize Spivak's work as a multivalent and polyvocal body of texts which lock together Marxism, feminism, and deconstruction in a rigorous reassessment of cultural systems.
2Medicine
(of an antigen or antibody) having several sites at which attachment to an antibody or antigen can occur. Compare with polyvalent Example sentencesExamples - Collectins are oligomeric, multivalent proteins sharing distinct collagen-like and calcium-dependent carbohydrate recognition domains.
- The quaternary structure provides the protein with a requisite topology that helps in multivalent binding to cells.
- Once small-molecule drugs are bound to the surface of medical devices, however, they become multivalent and able to be recognized by antibody-producing B-cells.
- Upon protein binding, the density of the lipid layer decreases slightly, consistent with geometrical constraints imposed by multivalent binding of GM 1 to the toxin.
- In general, desorption of supported membranes is hard to control if multivalent interaction sites have to be broken.
3Chemistry
another term for polyvalent Example sentencesExamples - In the experiments presented here, the amount of monovalent and multivalent ions was precisely controlled, as well as the method of preparation of the samples.
- This remarkable compaction can be reproduced in vitro by adding a small amount of condensing agent, such as polyamines, multivalent metal cations, cationic surfactants, or neutral polymers to a DNA solution.
- These thermodynamic models predict that there is significant lateral redistribution of both monovalent and multivalent charged lipids in response to the membrane association of oppositely charged proteins.
- Such a variation of the local distances near the redissolution limit could be observed for other polyelectrolytes precipitated by other multivalent cations.
- This is qualitatively in accordance with mean field theories, and is a consequence of an increased electrostatic screening from multivalent ions.
Derivatives noun ˌmʌltɪˈveɪl(ə)ns ‘Gallons’ connotes fluid, meaning that garbage comes in both solid and liquid form, another example of the term's multivalence. Example sentencesExamples - At the same time, there is also a semantic value of images, or a value of ambiguities and multivalence in iconographic interpretations.
- The extraordinary symbolic multivalence of food and eating extends much further, so that food has probably always been charged with questions of moral significance.
- How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
- While this too obviously underscores the presumed multivalence of the play itself, it serves as an elusive touchstone for the characters’ changing view of themselves.
noun Briefly, there will have to be a shift of emphasis - in thinking and in action - from homogeneity to multivalency. Example sentencesExamples - The multivalency of the names of his parents, however, already suggests their ambiguous outcast position, one resting between natural poverty and delinquency, which their son will also eventually occupy.
- Dickens is the quintessential urban artist, able to transform the multivalency of Victorian city life into a new and flexible kind of fiction.
- Surprisingly little confusion is caused by the multivalency of terms such as vara and hou in practice.
Definition of multivalent in US English: multivalentadjective 1Having or susceptible of many applications, interpretations, meanings, or values. visually complex and multivalent work Example sentencesExamples - I am especially interested in the ways that these individuals construct on-going, fluid, and multivalent narratives of Jewish identity rooted in the situations and relationships that constitute their daily lives.
- I believe that they are everywhere, but on very different terms that reflect the multivalent realities of today.
- Accessibility is a multivalent issue, one that points to the deeper issues already mentioned.
- I thought at first that he was trying to make a point about how media images of violence are so multivalent.
- Bodies deprived of attractive surroundings were as likely to be as depressed - or to use the superbly multivalent Rasta term, downpressed - as those deprived of anything they more obviously ‘needed’.
- The artist's lyrical, figurative paintings and collages reflect multivalent effects of his study of other art.
- Thumbnail sketches often characterize Spivak's work as a multivalent and polyvocal body of texts which lock together Marxism, feminism, and deconstruction in a rigorous reassessment of cultural systems.
- Through this multivalent signs, the scene forever oscillates between narration of butchery and love; it ‘checkmates’ any interpretation.
- This is because readers themselves play an active role in interpreting a multivalent and open-ended modernist cultural text.
- The graphic patterns of oscillating logic became increasingly multivalent and subtle with the application of fuzzy logic with more truth-values lying in-between.
- Even in its own terms Islam is and has always been multivalent.
- Frankly, some foul language can convey such complex, multivalent ideas in single syllables it feels a shame to try to elaborate and risk losing one iota of poignancy in a heated moment.
- Admittedly the definition of each term is multivalent, and their connections are elastic.
- Like all the scenery he made for Graham, and probably for his other choreographic projects, it was symbolic, multivalent.
- His work is wide in scope and multivalent in meaning, two characteristics that will grow and deepen not only upon further investigation into the work but also upon further personal rumination.
- It is much easier in a classroom than in a museum installation to project the image of the continent's art as historically dynamic, multivalent, and heterogeneous.
- In private settings, an exquisite image of a religious subject with multivalent textual meaning could serve all manner of eyes - Protestant, Catholic, the politically committed, the aesthetically conscious.
- They are emergent, multivalent signifiers in search of an open interpretation, one related to the building task, the site and the language of the particular architecture.
- I've used the multivalent interpretative possibilities to allow plots, elements, and events to overlap.
- His inversion and subversion of these multivalent emblems of consumer culture reinforce the anti-consumer message he delivers in our era of late capitalism and globalization.
2Medicine
(of an antigen or antibody) having several sites at which attachment to an antibody or antigen can occur. Compare with polyvalent Example sentencesExamples - Once small-molecule drugs are bound to the surface of medical devices, however, they become multivalent and able to be recognized by antibody-producing B-cells.
- Upon protein binding, the density of the lipid layer decreases slightly, consistent with geometrical constraints imposed by multivalent binding of GM 1 to the toxin.
- Collectins are oligomeric, multivalent proteins sharing distinct collagen-like and calcium-dependent carbohydrate recognition domains.
- In general, desorption of supported membranes is hard to control if multivalent interaction sites have to be broken.
- The quaternary structure provides the protein with a requisite topology that helps in multivalent binding to cells.
3Chemistry
another term for polyvalent Example sentencesExamples - This is qualitatively in accordance with mean field theories, and is a consequence of an increased electrostatic screening from multivalent ions.
- In the experiments presented here, the amount of monovalent and multivalent ions was precisely controlled, as well as the method of preparation of the samples.
- Such a variation of the local distances near the redissolution limit could be observed for other polyelectrolytes precipitated by other multivalent cations.
- These thermodynamic models predict that there is significant lateral redistribution of both monovalent and multivalent charged lipids in response to the membrane association of oppositely charged proteins.
- This remarkable compaction can be reproduced in vitro by adding a small amount of condensing agent, such as polyamines, multivalent metal cations, cationic surfactants, or neutral polymers to a DNA solution.
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