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Definition of polyvalent in English: polyvalentadjective ˌpɒlɪˈveɪl(ə)ntˌpɑliˈveɪl(ə)nt 1Chemistry Having a valency of three or more. Example sentencesExamples - The slow exchange of the central capsule for polymers and polyvalent anions might be of interest for controlled release applications.
- Peptization is defined as dispersion achieved by changing the composition of the dispersion medium and frequently includes the addition of polyvalent co-ions.
- Because the Born energy is the square function of the charge, the barrier height is expected to be four times larger for divalent ions than for monovalent ions, and orders of magnitude greater for polyvalent ions.
- The main physical effect described by this relation is the sensitivity of lipid enrichment to valence, i.e., the increased concentration of polyvalent lipids compared to that of monovalent ones in the adsorption domain.
- Covalently linking multiple copies of this peptide together on a flexible polyacrylamide backbone allowed them to construct from this a polyvalent inhibitor about 7500 times more potent than the original peptide.
2Medicine Active against several toxins or strains of pathogen. Example sentencesExamples - Scientists in the United States have created a polyvalent inhibitor of the toxin that protects rats for at least one week after they receive huge doses of anthrax toxin.
- A study of 227 healthy volunteers demonstrated that daily administration of 100 mg of G115 for 12 weeks enhanced the efficacy of polyvalent influenza vaccine.
- Patients with cirrhosis should be given a single dose of polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine as protection against infections such as peritonitis and pneumonia.
- There are five types of antivenom for specifically identified bites, and a polyvalent antivenom for use if the snake hasn't been identified.
- Four sets of reagents (CP-I, CP-II, CP-III and CP - IV) comprising latex beads coated with polyvalent immune sera to 17 serotypes of heat resistant CPA were used in the study.
3Having many different functions, forms, or facets. the polyvalent character of his thought Example sentencesExamples - Benjamin's scrutiny of Matisse is thus complex, shifting, and polyvalent, while at times even seeming to work against his own claims.
- Freud introduced free association in The Interpretation of Dreams as a method to trigger expansive clusters of signification, often polyvalent and clashing in character, in order to unravel the import of a dream.
- The multiplication of terms, images and stories in various media is replaced by the work on the creation of a single, boundless, polyvalent mega-medium.
- Rather than sticking to your own stable skills, you should be flexible and polyvalent, and you should do this on your own responsibility, autonomously.
- It was polyvalent, polyphonic, and polymorphously perverse.
- Salons were polyvalent institutions capable of adapting to political and economic conditions, and maintaining their significance.
- In spite of Oiticica's seminal work as a painter, sculptor and installation artist avant la lettre, filmmaking and expanding the limits of cinema were of great interest to his restless and polyvalent mind.
- Viewed in this way, the Fogg portrait conjures up all the polyvalent meanings of the phrase ‘painting as a woman.’
- I want members of my church to keep struggling with the polyvalent symbols of cross and flag.
- They are polyvalent images: the sea suggesting a space to be explored, the possibility of quest and discovery, but also a place of danger, drifting, homelessness and exile.
- But the World Cup continues to draw its strength from a remarkably portable and polyvalent game that expresses itself vibrantly through the colourful, dramatic expression of national difference.
- The fragmented and polyvalent nature of inshore fisheries makes collection of data on their operations difficult, however; consequently the inshore does not have such a strong voice as the high seas sector.
- If we miss this point, we miss understanding the multidimensionality of Duchamp and the polyvalent nature of his work.
- Most of the local cultures are in themselves multilayered and polyvalent.
- This meaning is not the only meaning, but polyvalent, historically conditioned and limited.
- Meskimmon fruitfully posits an embrace of language that is polyvalent, not univocal, and a network of communication operating in context rather than transhistorically.
- By the end, his serrated anti-riffs are faster, clearer, louder, polyvalent, and virtually indistinguishable from his pre-Carpal recordings.
- Furthermore, Irigaray uses this representation of the body to specify a feminine language which is plural, polyvalent, and irreducible to a masculine language based on restrictive notions of unity and identity.
- Law puts its trust in language as the instrument through which polyvalent signs can be reduced to a single truth and deliver both justice and narrative closure.
- These are no mere formalist exercises but polyvalent symbols of time, of chaos ordered, of life's sometimes painful cycles endured.
Definition of polyvalent in US English: polyvalentadjectiveˌpɑliˈveɪl(ə)ntˌpälēˈvāl(ə)nt 1Chemistry Having a valence of three or more. Example sentencesExamples - Because the Born energy is the square function of the charge, the barrier height is expected to be four times larger for divalent ions than for monovalent ions, and orders of magnitude greater for polyvalent ions.
- Peptization is defined as dispersion achieved by changing the composition of the dispersion medium and frequently includes the addition of polyvalent co-ions.
- Covalently linking multiple copies of this peptide together on a flexible polyacrylamide backbone allowed them to construct from this a polyvalent inhibitor about 7500 times more potent than the original peptide.
- The main physical effect described by this relation is the sensitivity of lipid enrichment to valence, i.e., the increased concentration of polyvalent lipids compared to that of monovalent ones in the adsorption domain.
- The slow exchange of the central capsule for polymers and polyvalent anions might be of interest for controlled release applications.
2Medicine Having the property of counteracting several related poisons or affording immunity against different strains of a microorganism. Example sentencesExamples - There are five types of antivenom for specifically identified bites, and a polyvalent antivenom for use if the snake hasn't been identified.
- Four sets of reagents (CP-I, CP-II, CP-III and CP - IV) comprising latex beads coated with polyvalent immune sera to 17 serotypes of heat resistant CPA were used in the study.
- A study of 227 healthy volunteers demonstrated that daily administration of 100 mg of G115 for 12 weeks enhanced the efficacy of polyvalent influenza vaccine.
- Patients with cirrhosis should be given a single dose of polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine as protection against infections such as peritonitis and pneumonia.
- Scientists in the United States have created a polyvalent inhibitor of the toxin that protects rats for at least one week after they receive huge doses of anthrax toxin.
3Having many different functions, forms, or facets. as emotion, love is polyvalent Example sentencesExamples - These are no mere formalist exercises but polyvalent symbols of time, of chaos ordered, of life's sometimes painful cycles endured.
- Meskimmon fruitfully posits an embrace of language that is polyvalent, not univocal, and a network of communication operating in context rather than transhistorically.
- In spite of Oiticica's seminal work as a painter, sculptor and installation artist avant la lettre, filmmaking and expanding the limits of cinema were of great interest to his restless and polyvalent mind.
- Viewed in this way, the Fogg portrait conjures up all the polyvalent meanings of the phrase ‘painting as a woman.’
- They are polyvalent images: the sea suggesting a space to be explored, the possibility of quest and discovery, but also a place of danger, drifting, homelessness and exile.
- Freud introduced free association in The Interpretation of Dreams as a method to trigger expansive clusters of signification, often polyvalent and clashing in character, in order to unravel the import of a dream.
- Rather than sticking to your own stable skills, you should be flexible and polyvalent, and you should do this on your own responsibility, autonomously.
- Salons were polyvalent institutions capable of adapting to political and economic conditions, and maintaining their significance.
- But the World Cup continues to draw its strength from a remarkably portable and polyvalent game that expresses itself vibrantly through the colourful, dramatic expression of national difference.
- It was polyvalent, polyphonic, and polymorphously perverse.
- This meaning is not the only meaning, but polyvalent, historically conditioned and limited.
- Furthermore, Irigaray uses this representation of the body to specify a feminine language which is plural, polyvalent, and irreducible to a masculine language based on restrictive notions of unity and identity.
- I want members of my church to keep struggling with the polyvalent symbols of cross and flag.
- If we miss this point, we miss understanding the multidimensionality of Duchamp and the polyvalent nature of his work.
- Benjamin's scrutiny of Matisse is thus complex, shifting, and polyvalent, while at times even seeming to work against his own claims.
- The multiplication of terms, images and stories in various media is replaced by the work on the creation of a single, boundless, polyvalent mega-medium.
- By the end, his serrated anti-riffs are faster, clearer, louder, polyvalent, and virtually indistinguishable from his pre-Carpal recordings.
- The fragmented and polyvalent nature of inshore fisheries makes collection of data on their operations difficult, however; consequently the inshore does not have such a strong voice as the high seas sector.
- Law puts its trust in language as the instrument through which polyvalent signs can be reduced to a single truth and deliver both justice and narrative closure.
- Most of the local cultures are in themselves multilayered and polyvalent.
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